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US moves to close the loophole letting Nvidia's top chips reach Chinese firms abroad
The US Commerce Department has issued guidance extending export license requirements to advance chips sold to any entity headquartered in China, regardless of where that entity is physically located. This closes a loophole that allowed Chinese companies to buy Nvidia chips using a subsidiary in another country. The action is aimed at future sales and not at clawing back hardware already shipped. It doesn't affect the servicing of advanced computing equipment such as servers.
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