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Tom's Hardware November 3, 2026 By Jowi Morales neutral

AI chip smugglers exploit trade control loophole to bring banned HBM from South Korea into China — expensive memory chips packaged with cheap, unsanctioned processors to become legal exports

AI / LLMSemiconductorsMemorySupply ChainRegulationData Center
Customs authorities only check the performance specifications of a server's processors, allowing smugglers to attach high-end memory chips to low-end processors and ship them into China.
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