A Wall Street Journal investigation claims to have tracked how 2,300 Nvidia Blackwell AI chips made their way to China via an Indonesian telecoms provider

An image of an Nvidia GB200 Grace Blackwell super chip against a black background.

While there has been a cooling off of the rhetoric surrounding trade relations between the US and China over the past few weeks, after US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in South Korea last month, Nvidia's high-end Blackwell GPUs were not part of the discussions.

Existing chip export restrictions preventing Nvidia from selling its top-end hardware to China remain, but The Wall Street Journal claims it has traced how 32 Nvidia GB 200 server racks, containing 2,300 Blackwell chips, made their way to China via an Indonesian company—eventually ending up in the hands of a Chinese AI tech provider.