Bloomberg: A leasing company controlled by Chinese local governments financed 32 Asustek servers built on export-restricted Nvidia B300 chips, which US rules bar from China without an explicit license.

The evidence sits in financing details that Chinese companies must legally lodge with a credit database run by the People's Bank of China.

Nvidia said it would investigate with its server-making customer, and Asus said it is committed to strict compliance with export controls.

Earlier smuggling cases implicated brokers and corporate insiders, whereas these filings run from a government-controlled lender into a state carrier's computing park.