“Prosecutors in Taiwan have indicted nine people for smuggling high-end AI chips to China.”
Over 100 servers full of Blackwell GPUs walked out the door, and a senior Nvidia Taiwan manager is among the accused. Export controls assume the choke point holds at the border. It does not hold when the people inside the supply chain are the ones moving the boxes. Prosecutors want six years and are charging over $1 million in embezzlement, which is a rounding error against what those racks fetch in Shenzhen.