US EditionThree more charged with trying to smuggle GPUs to China
- On Wednesday, the US Department of Justice charged Chinese national Stanley Yi Zheng of Hong Kong alongside US citizens Matthew Kelly and Tommy Shad English with conspiring to violate export controls and smuggle American-made advanced AI chips to China through Thailand.
- The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission claimed China's strategy of promoting open AI models and leveraging manufacturing dominance is 'mutually reinforcing,' forming a feedback loop that could challenge US technological leadership.
- Court documents reveal the conspiracy began in May 2023, with English allegedly ordering 750 servers valued at approximately $170 million from Supermicro while falsely claiming a Thai client; 600 of those servers contained export-controlled GPUs requiring government licenses.
- Zheng has already appeared before a judge in the Northern District of California, with all three defendants now in custody; Nvidia reviewed the order but could not verify the ultimate buyer and prevented the purchase from completing.
- Separately on Wednesday, the Justice Department indicted six Chinese nationals and two pharmaceutical companies on drug trafficking and money laundering charges tied to the fentanyl supply chain, coinciding with President Donald Trump's announcement of new mid-May dates for his anticipated China summit.
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[Yomiuri Shimbun] [Washington - Yuko Mukai] The U.S. Department of Justice announced on the 25th that it has indicted two Americans and one Chinese national on charges of violating export control laws for attempting to smuggle computer chips equipped with cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) made in the United States into China. According to the announcement, the three
Chinese National and 2 US Citizens Charged With Conspiring to Smuggle AI Tech to China
A Chinese national and two American citizens have been charged with conspiring to smuggle restricted artificial intelligence (AI) chips into China through Thailand, the U.S. Department of Justice announced March 25. Federal prosecutors say the three defendants allegedly sought to buy millions of dollars’ worth of export-controlled computer chips from a California-based computer hardware company for shipment without getting export licenses. “The …
Feds Arrest Trio for Nvidia GPU Smuggling Scheme Involving Supermicro Servers
A Chinese national and two Americans allegedly tried to smuggle export-controlled Nvidia chips to China. But Nvidia and Supermicro noticed something was off about the orders and canceled them.
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