US charges two men over alleged smuggling of Nvidia H100 and H200 AI chips to China

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.​