{"id":1047038,"date":"2026-11-04T11:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T05:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1047038"},"modified":"2026-11-04T12:04:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T06:34:50","slug":"chip-smuggler-details-how-a-single-loophole-is-letting-banned-south-korean-ram-slip-into-chinas-ai-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/04\/chip-smuggler-details-how-a-single-loophole-is-letting-banned-south-korean-ram-slip-into-chinas-ai-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"Chip smuggler details how a single loophole is letting banned South Korean RAM slip into China\u2019s AI labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advanced memory chips barred under strict export controls are slipping across borders directly into Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) laboratories, guided by a regulatory blind spot in international trade rules, a report has said. A memory smuggler has reportedly revealed how export-controlled High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) manufactured in South Korea by Samsung and SK Hynix reaches mainland China. Under current US and South Korean trade restrictions, standalone exports of cutting-edge HBM units to China are outright prohibited. Yet the smuggler, who runs a chip design venture, identified an easy detour around the embargo, The Information reports.<\/p>\n<p>The report (via Tom\u2019s Hardware) details that regulatory export controls measure only the raw computing performance of the server processor itself, without evaluating secondary components attached to the board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advanced memory chips barred under strict export controls are slipping across borders directly into Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) laboratories, guided by a regulatory blind spot in international trade rules, a report has said. A memory smuggler has reportedly revealed how export-controlled High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) manufactured in South Korea by Samsung and SK Hynix reaches mainland China. Under current US and South Korean trade restrictions, standalone exports of cutting-edge HBM units to China are outright prohibited. Yet the smuggler, who runs a chip design venture, identified an easy detour around the embargo, The Information reports. The report (via Tom\u2019s Hardware) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047039,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047038\/revisions\/1047039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}