{
  "id": 16196291,
  "title": "Illegal Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 GPUs found inside state-owned China Telecom's network",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/illegal-nvidia-blackwell-ultra-b300-gpus-found-inside-state-owned",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-23T12:26:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tom's Hardware",
    "slug": "tom-s-hardware",
    "url": "https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/illegal-nvidia-blackwell-ultra-b300-gpus-found-inside-state-owned-china-telecoms-network-nvidia-says-chip-smuggling-a-drop-in-the-bucket-insists-smuggling-remains-a-nonfactor"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "An Israeli security firm, Lava, has discovered 32 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 GPUs inside the network of China Telecom, a state-owned telecommunications company. These high-performance chips were banned from export by U.S. export controls, raising questions about how they ended up in a Chinese data center. Despite efforts to curb the sale of Nvidia's AI data center chips, such as in 2025 when Chinese companies smuggled $1 billion worth of Nvidia AI chips in three months, the issue of smuggling remains a concern. Nvidia has downplayed the report but did not deny the findings. While the exact location of the B300 chips within China Telecom's network is unknown, Lava identified them using Nvidia's DCGM Exporter tool, which is typically used for internal monitoring. The B300 chip, announced in March of the previous year, is highly sought after for its powerful performance, boasting 50% more memory and FP4 compute than its predecessor. Despite the ongoing crackdown on chip smuggling, demand for Nvidia's older silicon has led to skyrocketing prices, with the A100 servers tripling in price since their release five years ago.",
  "summary": "A security firm has been able to identify 32 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 AI chips running inside a China Telecom network, but it's unclear where the export-barred components are physically located.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}