Advanced Artificial Intelligence Nvidia Chips, with a value of at least one billion dollars, were introduced to smuggling to China in the three months after Washington hardening chips export controls, according to Financial Times this Thursday.
The high -end B200 processors of the artificial intelligence chips designer, whose sale is prohibited in China, are widely available in the Chinese black market of American chips, according to the Financial report, which cites sales contracts, documents presented by the company and several people with direct knowledge of the agreements.
In statements to Reuters, NVIDIA said that building data centers with smuggling products is inefficient both technically and financially, since the company only offers service and support for authorized products.
In May, several Chinese distributors began selling B200 to suppliers of data centers that provide services to Chinese artificial intelligence groups, according to the report.
The United States and China are struggling for global domain in artificial intelligence and other avant -garde technologies, which generates a balance between the two largest economies in the world for companies such as NVIDIA.
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Last week, Nvidia announced that it would be allowed to resume sales to China after the Trump administration revoked a chips export restriction like H2O. The restrictions were imposed in April.
In the previous three months, Chinese distributors from the provinces of Guangdong, Zhejiang and Anhui sold the NVIDIA B200, as well as other restricted processors such as the H100 and the H200, according to the report.
Southeast Asia countries have become markets where Chinese groups obtained restricted chips, the report points out, citing industry experts.
In this regard, the United States Department of Commerce seeks to add more export controls on advanced artificial intelligence products to countries such as Thailand from September, according to the report.
With Reuters information
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