Trio charged over alleged plot to smuggle Nvidia chips from US to China (www.bbc.com)
from Canaii@lemmy.zip to world@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 10:19
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the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 11:40 next collapse

They are made in china, why not just smuggle them out of the factory and skip the middle man?

pulsewidth@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 11:44 collapse

Uhh… No.

The servers in question are made and built in the USA, and the chips are made in Taiwan by TSMC. China is not involved at all, as they lack the capabilities to manufacture these chips (for now).

the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 12:17 collapse

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3xQaf7BFI&t=4188s

pulsewidth@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 14:18 next collapse

This does not disagree with what I said, nor add weight to the statement I was replying to.

The servers in question in the article were made in the US and the chips in Taiwan.

Yes, there is shitfuckery going on with the grey market, and yes, Nvidia is likely doing their best to turn a blind eye - that really doesn’t have anything to do with what you wrote.

verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr on 20 Mar 14:21 collapse

The chips were being diverted from Taiwan directly to China, they never saw US land.

pulsewidth@lemmy.world on 20 Mar 14:49 collapse

“They are made in china, why not just smuggle them out of the factory and skip the middle man?”

Explain how this comment makes sense.

They are not made in China.

Can people just not read articles anymore?

The entire article is about US-manufactured servers being shipped to China. Not a single mention of the other story of TSMC chips directly-exported to China from Taiwan, which is an entirely different event.

verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr on 20 Mar 14:19 collapse

Let them dream, people still fall for the old “disseminated in the USA” from i. e. Intel’s IHS.

jefferyjefferson@lemmy.org on 20 Mar 15:00 collapse

Capitalists never play fair.