By Che Pan and Casey Hall BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Demand in China has begun surging for a business that, in theory, shouldn't exist: the repair of advanced Nvidia artificial intelligence chipsets that the U.

Financial Times is reporting that $1 billion worth of NVIDIA AI chips were smuggled into China in the three months after the Trump administration tightened semiconductor export controls. Citing sales contracts,

Nvidia's most powerful chips are banned for sale to China.At least $1 billion in Nvidia computer chips were smuggled into China in the three-months span after President Trump imposed