Despite the U.S. desperately trying to block access to advanced AI chips from Nvidia and AMD, many Chinese companies still find a way to get them into their hands. According to a report from the Financial Times, at least a billion dollars’ worth of Nvidia B200s and other banned chips have been shipped to China ever since President Donald Trump banned the export of China-specific H20 GPUs (and the similarly performant AMD MI308) in April 2025.
The publication says that the data behind this claim comes from multiple sales contracts, company filings, and people who have been directly involved with the deals. While the U.S. has made it illegal for anyone to sell these banned chips to specific countries, China has no such restrictions, allowing anyone to trade them as long as the proper taxes have been paid.
