Chinese military, state-owned companies bought tons of high-end NVIDIA GPUs despite ban

Chinese military bodies, state-affiliated artificial intelligence research institutes, and universities have managed to circumvent US export bans by purchasing restricted NVIDIA GPUs over the past year, as reported by Reuters based on an analysis of tender documents. The review of tender documents reveals that various Chinese entities, including elite universities and those subject to US export restrictions such as the Harbin Institute of Technology and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, have procured small quantities of NVIDIA semiconductors prohibited for export to China by the United States. The purchases include NVIDIA's A100, H100, A800, and H800 chips,…