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Nvidia employee detained in Taiwan as part of ongoing chip smuggling investigation
Unnamed suspect questioned following searches of his home and workplace
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Supermicro's Taiwan office raided in ongoing Nvidia smuggling probe, more employees detained by prosecutors – report
Follows announcement last month that company was working with authorities to stop illegal shipments of AI servers
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Three at Supermicro charged with smuggling Nvidia GPU servers into China, including company co-founder
One of the defendants is a co-founder of the server manufacturer
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US House Foreign Affairs Committee advances bill to give Congress AI chip export authority
Bipartisan legislation passed the House 42-2
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US introduces 25 percent export tariff on chips “important” to nation's technology policies
Nvidia H200 and AMD MI325X GPUs will be subject to the levy
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Nvidia H200 chips can be exported to China on 'case-by-case basis' - US government
Exports will only be permitted if sufficient supply of the GPUs exists in the US
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US House of Representatives pass bill to limit remote access to US AI chips
Meanwhile, Nvidia says upfront payments from Chinese customers purchasing H200s is not company policy
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Trump allows sale of Nvidia's H200 chip to China
Chips galore
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Trump says nobody “other than the United States” will have access to Nvidia’s most advanced Blackwell GPUs
Unclear what this means for Nvidia’s previously announced Blackwell deployments outside the US
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Department of Commerce issues export licenses for Nvidia chips destined for the UAE
Follows reports that delays were frustrating members of the government and Nvidia executives
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China’s Internet regulator tells Chinese tech companies to stop buying Nvidia AI chips – report
Companies told to cancel orders of RTX Pro 6000D GPUs
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Nvidia presses pause on H20 production as Chinese gov’t says chips pose a national security threat - report
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he hopeful the issues will be resolved
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US authorities tracking AI chip shipments to stop them being diverted to China – report
Trackers have been attached to shipments of Dell and Supermicro servers, sources claim
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Trump originally wanted 20% cut of revenues from Chinese sales of Nvidia’s “obsolete” H20 chips
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met with Trump to negotiate the figure down to 15 percent
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Nvidia and AMD agree to pay US gov’t 15% of China chip sales in order to obtain export licenses - report
Deal was struck by the parties last week
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Nvidia orders 300,000 H20 chips from TSMC after Trump export reversal causes surge in demand - report
But lawmakers still unhappy with the decision to grant export licenses to China
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Supply of Nvidia H20s to China 'limited' despite easing restrictions - report
Comes as US lawmakers criticize move to grant export licenses
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US agrees to grant Nvidia H20 export licenses as chipmaker unveils new Blackwell-inspired GPU for China
Reversal follows meeting between President Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
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Nvidia to launch new Blackwell-based chipset for Chinese market - report
Comes after US government imposed further restrictions on chipmaker’s H20 chips
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Huawei unveils Ascend 920 AI chip, will start shipping 910C to Chinese customers from May – report
Chip launch follows additional US export restrictions on Nvidia H20 GPUs to China
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US gov’t imposes restrictions on Nvidia H20s, chipmaker claims will cost it $5.5bn
Follows Nvidia's announcement it plans to produce AI supercomputers in the US
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US gov’t decides not to further restrict Nvidia H20 exports to China, follows Jensen Huang’s visit to Mar-a-Lago
Additional controls were due to come into force this week
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Three arrested in Singapore over alleged Nvidia chip smuggling
Police investigating whether servers containing restricted chips had been diverted from official destination
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Biden administration moves ahead with much-criticized AI Diffusion legislation
Will seek to prohibit access to advanced AI chips and AI model weights
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ByteDance could spend $7bn to access Nvidia Blackwell chips outside China – report
Would make TikTok’s parent company one of Nvidia’s biggest customers
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State-linked Chinese entities use AWS for access to high-end chips - report
Continues to work around export restrictions
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Chinese companies exploiting sanctions loophole by accessing GPUs in the US - report
Chinese cloud providers have also attempted to establish data centers in the US to avoid sanctions
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Chinese institutions acquired Nvidia AI chips despite US export ban - report
Ten research facilities and universities have acquired the sanctioned chips through domestic resellers