GPU Smuggling Documentary Highlights How Easily China Can Grab Latest GPU Designs

Chinese companies seem to be having an increasingly difficult time accessing the latest GPU hardware for data centers and AI training—but that isn't stopping enterprising companies and individuals from managing it anyhow. A comprehensive smuggling operation is taking place overseas, and Gamers Nexus has a detailed documentary diving deeply into the process. The film highlights how little the latest hurdles have slowed Chinese access to fast AI hardware.

Chinese companies have been known to smuggle GPUs and processors into the country before, but the last six months of trade tariffs and global uncertainty have bolstered this activity many times over. Reports have emerged of over a billion dollars' worth of GPUs making their way into the country by non-official channels in the past year, and Gamers Nexus has dug into the details of how some of these smuggling endeavours work.

The documentary speaks directly to those involved in ...