How Smugglers Get Expensive Memory Chips to China from South Korea

For an illustration of how porous U.S. restrictions on the shipment of AI chips to China can be, consider a technique that has begun to catch on among smugglers involving a key type of memory chip. While U.S. export regulations ban the shipment of high-bandwidth memory chips on their own to China, including from countries like South Korea, those rules have a loophole that allows the sales of…

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How Smugglers Get Expensive Memory Chips to China from South Korea — The Information
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