Capitalists never play fair.
They are made in china, why not just smuggle them out of the factory and skip the middle man?
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).
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.
The chips were being diverted from Taiwan directly to China, they never saw US land.
“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.
Let them dream, people still fall for the old “disseminated in the USA” from i. e. Intel’s IHS.