NYT: US subsidiary of sanctioned Chinese company Inspur shipped servers with $3 billion of Nvidia chips to Southeast Asia
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Demand for SI compute is so great that chips find their way to buyers around any ban, and export controls are turning into a game of catch-up with logistics.
According to a New York Times investigation (published Sunday, September 6), the California server maker Aivres, a US subsidiary of Inspur, which was blacklisted by the US in 2023, exported $5.6 billion of technology to Southeast Asia from April 2024 to February 2026, of which more than $3 billion was computers with Nvidia Blackwell chips. Through intermediaries in Malaysia and China, this capacity ultimately served ByteDance and Alibaba. Aivres itself is not on the sanctions list. On Monday, shares of Inspur Electronic Information fell 3.8%; Nvidia said it does not support the diversion of its products.