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THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET

"Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments"

2025-08-17 en 209m
Documentary
NVIDIA (NVDA) GPUs have become so in-demand for so-called "AI" workloads that a black market has emerged around them. Where there's prohibition, there's smuggling, and there's money to be made for everyone in the chain. We found smugglers, users, fences, middlemen, and institutions in China, Taiwan, and the US involved in this pipeline flowing export controlled GPUs to China. This is in violation of US Government law, which now includes imposed numerous restrictions on semiconductor processing capabilities, making legitimate export of high-end GPUs to Chinese companies or governments impossible without rarely-granted licenses. But while this is going on, the US Government, NVIDIA, and AMD have been negotiating a cut of sales of two specific models of GPU in order to unblock over $6 billion in combined lost revenue between the companies. This is our first full-length, highly produced movie we've ever created. This was made possible thanks to our viewers supporting our ambitions.

Director

Steve Burke

Writer

Steve Burke

Lead Editor

Steve Burke

Editor

Vitalii Makhnovets

Editor

Tim Phetdara

Editor

Andrew Coleman

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Status

Released

Budget

$480,000

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