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How China gets the Nvidia chips it needs to develop AI
The probe underscores alleged smuggling, third-country cloud access and reassembly workarounds as Chinese firms keep using Nvidia GPUs despite export controls.
The scandal has focused attention on how China, a major artificial-intelligence power in itself, obtains the cutting-edge chips despite US export restrictions.
Why are Nvidia chips so important?
Nvidia designs advanced components originally created to handle 3D visuals in video games, called Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).
These have the power to crunch colossal amounts of digital data, so are also used at scale to train and run artificial int…