Smugglers Reportedly Pair Top-Tier HBM With Throwaway Server Chips To Dodge U.S. Export Controls, Then Melt Them Apart In China

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The U.S. export controls have once more failed to curb advanced chips being smuggled into China, this time HBM (High-Bandwidth Memory). It appears that some rules can be bent for certain products featuring DRAM, and that’s how people with next-level ingenuity have taken advantage of this loophole. Standalone HBM cannot be exported to China, and that’s the exploit that smugglers were looking to… — Wccftech

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