… That has experts like Kondi watching on carefully. “The risks of accelerated domestication grow if China has greater access to advanced chips,” she said, “and wider PRC access to these chips also empowers China's defence capabilities and enables it to expand its pervasive and repressive surveillanc…
… Link: White House Official Says Moonshot Accessed Banned Nvidia Chips | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-22/white-house-official-says-moonshot-accessed-banned-nvidia-chips?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NDc…
… In China, it's an open secret that many of the country's high-level own or have access to Blackwell and other advanced chips, but despite all the trade restrictions and pushing the usage of local-made chips, the CCP has seemingly yet to crack down on said AI players. …
… There are ongoing disputes between the U.S. and the Netherlands over whether ASML should be allowed to service and sell less advanced chip fabrication machines to China, while still restricting access to the latest tools. …
… Both those for exporting American AI chips to China and those against giving them access to this advanced hardware have valid points, but we can only know which side is right years, if not decades, from now. …
China's ongoing ability to access advanced AI chips from the likes of NVIDIA and AMD has remained a hard-to-crack conundrum in Washington for quite some time now. …
… And for us to make a contribution and to offer something to Chinese market, we will have to compete, and we will have to continue to advance our technology. - NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang It appears that NVIDIA views China as a core part of its chip business, which is why Jensen emphasizes that Americ… …
… This is the first arrest Taiwan has made in connection with the U.S. crackdown on AI chip smuggling, and the first to reveal Japan as a transshipment point for these illicit goods. Many smuggling operations have been using Southeast Asian nations to route Nvidia chips to China. …
… MORE CONTEXT Washington reportedly moves to tighten leash on AI chip exports China's rubber-stamp parliament rubber stamps tech independence plan Nvidia hasn't made a cent in China lately – and might not need to given $120B profit Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere "Pres… …
… Nvidia is the chipmaker for most AI companies in North America and Europe, but a United States export ban has prevented the company from achieving a similar presence in China. …