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Federal prosecutors arrested a man in California on charges of smuggling computer servers containing more than $300 million worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips. The alleged scheme involved routing the chips through Malaysia and Singapore before they reached China, circumventing US export controls meant to limit China's access to advanced AI hardware.
The arrest comes amid ongoing US efforts to restrict the flow of high-end AI chips to China over national security concerns. Nvidia's chips have been a central focus of these controls given their widespread use in training advanced AI models.
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