China’s nuclear-weapons lab continued buying Intel, Nvidia chips, WSJ says

China’s top nuclear-weapons research institute has bought sophisticated U.S. computer chips at least a dozen times in the past two and half years, circumventing decades-old American export restrictions meant to curb such sales, The Wall Street Journal’s Liza Lin and Dan Strumpf report. A Wall Street Journal review of procurement documents found that the state-run China Academy of Engineering Physics has managed to obtain the semiconductors made by U.S. companies such as Intel (INTC) and Nvidia (NVDA) since 2020 despite its placement on a U.S. export blacklist in 1997. The chips, which are widely used in data centers and personal computers, were acquired from resellers in China, the authors note. Reference Link