U.S. prosecutors say a California business owner helped send about $300 million worth of Nvidia AI hardware to China without the required export licenses. The indictment alleges Greg Lui and Earthmade Computer used U.S. suppliers, freight companies, and transshipment firms in Malaysia and Singapore from October 2023 to August 2026 to move servers containing Nvidia A100 and H100 chips and GeForce RTX 4090 and 5090 GPUs, while disguising the real destination and recipients.
Why it matters: This matters to chip vendors, cloud and server suppliers, freight forwarders, and companies with export-control obligations because it shows how controlled AI hardware can be diverted through third countries. Organizations involved in high-end compute sales should review customer screening, shipping routes, end-user checks, and export-compliance controls now.
2026.10.02
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This article appears to be the first concrete report of the criminal case against Greg Lui and Earthmade Computer over alleged unlawful diversion of Nvidia AI hardware to China.
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