Comment by dannyw

Gamers Nexus has a good video where his team travelled to China and did some actual investigative journalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3xQaf7BFI

Firstly, the export-restricted GB202s (e.g. 5090, RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell) are fabled in TSMC, and then packaged/made in... China before they supposedly have to be sold out (by US law; but not by Chinese law). You can immediately see the problem there.

Secondly, despite the supposed 'crackdowns' and et al, NVIDIA and their channel partners pretty much will sell to anyone in countries like Singapore without any questions.

Third, there's human "smugglers" who just physically carry em on trips, and Chinese customs is obviously not going to care about the US's laws on Chinese soil.