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WireScreen analyzed 54 procurement records spanning seven months to uncover how one of China's most important AI research institutions — Tsinghua University — continued acquiring advanced Nvidia AI accelerators, including the A100, H100, and newly released RTX 5090, despite successive rounds of U.S. export controls.
The report goes beyond the procurement records themselves. By mapping corporate ownership, management networks, shared identifiers, and organizational affiliations, WireScreen identified a broader ecosystem of firms connected to the acquisition and distribution of advanced computing infrastructure — many of which never appear directly in procurement filings.
The findings show that suppliers ranged from established AI infrastructure providers to recently incorporated technology firms with limited operating histories. Many maintain commercial relationships with defense-affiliated universities, research institutes, and other organizations involved in the development of China's AI ecosystem.
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WireScreen is a risk intelligence platform with proprietary data and analytics on more than 20 million Chinese business entities. The platform integrates Chinese corporate registry data, beneficial ownership tracing, risk-flag classifications, and cross-entity relationship mapping to surface commercial relationships across the full ecosystem.
