Although it was said to be independent of the U.S.-led investigation, it involved a similar scheme designed to smuggle Nvidia hardware into China. This is for the China-only, neutered Nvidia GPUs like H20 and H100s — not the cutting-edge GB200 and GB300 Blackwell-based stacks available to Western AI developers. That's because for certain tasks, Nvidia GPUs remain the best. Although some post-training fine-tuning is now possible on Chinese hardware, the Moonshot's headline-grabbing Kimi K3 was trained on potentially smuggled Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. The net may be closing on the Supermicro smuggling scheme, but the incentive is there for others to take its place, if they haven't already.