It's not clear from the article you linked whether MegaSpeed was an approved buyer of NVidia chips or not.
We don't have to determine that. The decades long prison sentence linked to this court case will do it for us.
Megaspeed is (was?) an official Nvidia Cloud Partner and Nvidia sold them on the order of 140,000 GPUs.
We don't have to determine that. The decades long prison sentence linked to this court case will do it for us.