Nvidia AI chips worth $1B smuggled to China after Trump export controls

Export controls are almost impossible to entirely control - narcotics are the direct analogy. Where there is demand, there will be supply - tons of money to be made in both trying to prevent it (customs officers, surveillance tech etc) and trying to facilitate it (smugglers). Still, the absolute volume of NVIDIA AI Chips accessible to China is likely to be substantially lower, so the chokehold is there, even though a knock out probably isn't