- Blowing AI data blows is the latest job for China’s tough US chip control
- Physically smuggling hard drives now monitor several circle options and neglect digital firewalls
- Malaysian Data Centers rich with GPUs are becoming ground zero for Chinese AI training
Since the United States continues to tighten export sanctions on advanced AI chips, such as NVIDIA, Chinese AI companies are turning to a task that almost Almost in today’s digital world.
Instead of relying on online transfer or approved hardware, some firms are taking physically extensive datases on hard drives across the borders.
A report by Wall Street Journal It claims that four Chinese tech workers recently flew in Malaysia, each has 15 high -capacity hard drives, with amazing 4.8 pita bytes data, which aims to train large language models.
Big data continues to enter China despite restrictions
US sanctions have made it difficult to get AI GPUS at the end of the high end through legal channels.
Although NVIDIA believes, “there is no evidence of the turning point,” ground reports have proposed otherwise, with the black market to promote smuggled NVIDIA GPUs in China.
Some of these chips are reportedly entering the country through subsidiaries and partners in neighboring countries.
However, the route is becoming more expensive and dangerous due to rapid scrutiny and diplomatic pressure by Washington on these patriotic countries.
As a result, companies are changing tactics: instead of importing limited chips, they are exporting large quantities of training data.
This is a complex and resource -related process. Companies carefully plan to distribute drives, physically transport data to prevent customs.
They also rent GPU servers in third -party countries like Malaysia to take action.
An example includes a Chinese firm that used a subsidiary registered from Singapore to sign the Data Center contract. However, the Malaysian partner later insisted on local registration to avoid regulatory pressure, as Singapore began to tighten its control.
Despite the growing efforts of US agencies, the implementation difference and logistics flaws continue. Although the shipping of data bytes on the hard drives may seem old, it pushes bandout limits and digital surveillance.
The use of hard drives, from large SSD to high -capacity outdoor HDD, is the focus of these secret transfer.
Nevertheless, it raises a question: Why not use magnetic tape, especially seeing that modern LTO-10 formats can store up to 30tb irrelevant and 75TB compressed?
The answer is probably practically. Tape solution requires special reading/writing hardware and lacks the HDD plug and play convenience at a high -end used high -end today.
