Nvidia's advanced artificial intelligence chips worth at least $1 billion were smuggled to China in the three months after Washington tightened chip export controls, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

AI chips worth $1B were shipped to China in the three months after U.S. President Donald Trump tightened chip export controls, the Financial Times reported. An analysis of dozens of sales contracts, company filings and several people familiar with the deals revealed that Nvidia’s B200 has become the most sought-after and

At least $1 billion worth of Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence processors were shipped to China in the three months after Donald Trump tightened chip export controls, exposing the limits of Washington’s efforts to restrain Beijing’s high-tech ambitions.