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The Announcer: the city of Ledgerville, where a blacklisted firm's subsidiary shipped at least $5.6 billion in advanced tech, over $3 billion of it with top Nvidia chips, to data centers serving Chinese firms. Baron Von Bottomline: subsidiary-level compliance optimization. Dash: translation, the ban named the parent, not the subsidiary. Pop: Nvidia says it doesn't support diverted products. Zap: ten months with nobody blacklisted, the longest gap in eighteen years. The firms did not respond.

Inspur, a Chinese server maker the US blacklisted in 2023, kept getting top Nvidia technology through subsidiaries the blacklist did not name: by trade records, its US arm Aivres exported at least $5.6 billion of advanced technology to Southeast Asia from April 2024 to February 2026, more than $3 billion of it computers with Blackwell chips, to data centers serving Chinese firms including Alibaba and ByteDance; Nvidia says it does not support diverted products, the companies did not respond, and no firm has been added to the US entity list for ten months, the longest gap in 18 years.

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