The Department of Justice announced that two Chinese men have been arrested and charged over allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips to China.
The DOJ said Monday after court documents were unsealed that Haochun Hsu, 43, of Missouri City, and his company, Hao Global LLC, pleaded guilty to smuggling and unlawful export activities Oct. 10. Between October 2024 and May 2025, Hsu and others exported and attempted to export at least $160 million worth of export-controlled Nvidia H100 and H200 Tensor Core graphic processing units, according to court documents.
The high-speed GPUs are used for AI applications and high-performance computing, and designed to process massive amounts of data, advancing generative AI and large language models, and accelerating scientific computing. Exporting them to China is prohibited.
