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Federal Charges: Smuggling NVIDIA Chips to China Uncovered

11/21/2025

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Federal prosecutors charged three Chinese nationals and an American with illegally smuggling NVIDIA chips to China.
Arrests occurred in California and are linked to a Florida indictment against Cham Li for exporting restricted GPUs without licenses.
The group used a Tampa shell company to disguise shipments totaling about 400 NVIDIA A100 GPUs and 50 H200 GPUs via Malaysia and Thailand from September 2023 to July 2025.

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Federal prosecutors charged three Chinese nationals and an American with illegally smuggling NVIDIA chips to China.
Arrests occurred in California and are linked to a Florida indictment against Cham Li for exporting restricted GPUs without licenses.
The group used a Tampa shell company to disguise shipments totaling about 400 NVIDIA A100 GPUs and 50 H200 GPUs via Malaysia and Thailand from September 2023 to July 2025.