Taiwanese authorities raided the office of PCB maker Unimicron, an Nvidia and Intel supplier, alleging it illegally labeled China-made parts as made in Taiwan
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Compliance risk is now a first-order supply-chain variable for advanced compute — if a key PCB vendor can be hit for relabeling, origin traceability becomes as important as capacity. Map where your AI hardware stack touches cross-Strait manufacturing and tighten vendor attestations before regulators do it for you.
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