A blacklisted Chinese firm renamed its US arm and kept buying chips.
The New York Times reported on Sunday how a blacklisted Chinese server maker keeps buying Nvidia chips. Trade records show its renamed US unit, Aivres, shipped over $3 billion of Nvidia computers to Southeast Asia. Aivres itself is still not on any US restriction list.
Why it mattersExport limits are the main brake on China's AI build-out. This shows the brake leaks through corporate paperwork.
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