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China’s H200 hunger drives Nvidia chip smugglers to Japan route
Taiwanese authorities have arrested three suspects and seized 50 servers loaded with high-end Nvidia AI chips smuggled into China via Japan. This marks the first known instance of smugglers using Japan as a waypoint to bypass restrictions on advanced semiconductor exports.
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