alt Hacker NewsBut why.. he must have had excess to stuff them somewhere. Funding companies to buy the chips was a sign too..
He would never confess if he was black mailed unless there was documentation. who would.
At first I saw the woman as a double agent. Now I am not sure. Americans were watching him for months and knew so why would they not ring the alarm.. It smelled double agent to me. Who knows for sure, right!.. If she was a double agent, they were monitoring the Chinese.. It is one those things where one needs to know the state of chip surplus then.
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If nvidia gets China hooked on nvidia chips now, if (when?) export restrictions are lifted, they'd likely have largely captured the chinese datacenter market too. Otherwise the risk is the chinese eventually catch up with their own production and start competing with nvidia not only in China but also in the west.
As a side advantage it gets rid of oversupply and makes nvidia look like it has endless insatiable customers.
He didn't need excess, as far as the paperwork went they were lawfully sold to a Singaporean company at normal prices.
I don't think she was a double agent or even really a state asset; she was just an ambitious woman who conspired with him to sell NV cards in China.