Smugglers Find New Routes to Move AI Memory Chips from South Korea to China

A growing smuggling technique is being used to move expensive memory chips from South Korea to China, highlighting how porous U.S. restrictions on AI chip shipments to China are.

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2026-11-03 21:00 · The Information AI
How Smugglers Get Expensive Memory Chips to China from South Korea

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