US charges two men over alleged smuggling of Nvidia H100 and H200 AI chips to China
Summary
The US Justice Department has charged two Chinese-linked defendants with conspiring to smuggle at least $160 million worth of Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs to China via straw purchasers, fake labeling and intermediary warehouses. Prosecutors say the long-running scheme sought to circumvent US export controls on advanced AI chips, underscoring growing enforcement around hardware seen as critical to training frontier AI models.([reuters.com](https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-justice-department-accuses-two-chinese-men-trying-smuggle-nvidia-chips-2025-12-09/))
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