# Huawei tells customers to find their own AI chip memory, effectively outsourcing procurement to the black market

**Published:** November 3, 2026
**Author:** Maximilian Schreiner
**Source:** The Decoder
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/huawei-tells-customers-to-find-their-own-ai-chip-memory-effectively-outs

Huawei is telling customers to source the high-performance memory for its AI chips on their own, pushing them onto the black market. Smugglers are exploiting a loophole in U.S. export rules by bundling HBM with low-end processors, shipping them through Hong Kong, and separating…

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