NVIDIA chips found in Indonesia, despite US's ban on exports
A Chinese AI company has figured out a way to access NVIDIA's advanced chips, even though the US tried to block them.
According to the Wall Street Journal, these high-powered chips ended up in Jakarta through NVIDIA's US-based business partner, Aivres.
While Aivres is linked to a blacklisted Chinese company, no US export laws were actually broken.
Aivres sold server racks loaded with NVIDIA chips to Indosat
In mid-2024, Aivres began negotiating a deal with Indosat, an Indonesian telecom giant.
As of October 2025, the servers had been delivered and were being installed. This move let Shanghai-based INF Tech use the hardware for AI projects in finance and healthcare.
INF is led by an MIT grad with ties to Fudan University and reportedly sticks to US export rules.
Meanwhile, NVIDIA keeps pushing for looser regulations, saying it is better to have the rest of the world hooked on American technology and financing American innovation—highlighting just how complicated the US-China tech rivalry has become.