How blacklisted Inspur keeps buying US chips through its Silicon Valley subsidiary

一家被列入黑名单的中国科技巨头如何继续购买美国芯片

After Inspur Group was added to the US Entity List in 2023, its Silicon Valley subsidiary Aivres took over. From April 2024 to February 2026, Aivres exported at least $5.6 billion in advanced tech to Southeast Asia, including over $3 billion in computers with Nvidia Blackwell chips. The gear ended up in data centers serving Alibaba and ByteDance, and at Maginfra—a new firm on the same street as Inspur's HQ that supplies Chinese universities and state-owned enterprises. Four officials say a federal investigation is underway, but the post doesn't spell out its progress. Worth noting: the Trump administration already approved a license for Maginfra to get Nvidia H200 chips, and no company has been added to the Entity List for 10 months, the longest gap in 18 years.

Why it matters: NYT investigative piece with named entities, dollar amounts, and a traced supply chain. Hits all three HKR axes. Slight discount because it's a policy/supply-chain story rather than an AI capability update — less directly actionable for model builders. Lands at 82, featured tier.