Despite China's push for domestic chip development, Nvidia hardware is still hot enough to be worth smuggling.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Justice Department arrested the co-founder of AI server maker Super Micro for allegedly smuggling Nvidia’s advanced AI chips to China.

Taiwan’s Keelung prosecutors have detained an Nvidia employee in the widening probe into AI servers allegedly diverted to China.

A Taiwanese national was arrested on suspicion of illegally exporting AI servers manufactured by Supermicro.

"Smuggling is a nonstarter..."