NYT: blacklisted Inspur kept buying Nvidia's top AI chips via US subsidiary Aivres
pstAsiatech · x · 2026-09-06
A New York Times investigation (Sept. 6) details how China's Inspur Group, blacklisted by the US in March 2023 over work with the Chinese military, kept acquiring America's best AI chips: its Silicon Valley operations were rebranded as a new subsidiary, Aivres, in Fremont, Calif., with R&D and manufacturing facilities that continued the parent's work—shipping Nvidia's top chips to feed China's leading AI firms. The report highlights multiple loopholes; the poster notes export-control rules were never designed for such transaction structures, and the article omits the controls' stated military end-use rationale.
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