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fact F-0066 Corroborated

Bloomberg: US suspects Nvidia chips were smuggled to Alibaba via Thailand’s OBON Corp

Date
2026-05-09
Topics
export-controls, context
File
facts/F-0066-bloomberg-us-suspects-nvidia-chips-were-smuggled-to-alibaba.md

Publication relayed by the Boston Globe and Quartz. OBON and Alibaba were not charged. The suspicion comes from unnamed sources.

Sources

  • S-0078 · Boston Globe / Bloomberg · 2026-05-09 · link (snippet)

Referenced by (2)

  • fact F-0065 SDNY charges three people tied to Super Micro with diverting ≥$2.5B of Nvidia-based servers to China
  • theory T-0010 Nvidia’s China channel: diversion as business model, espionage as distraction