"Nicholas J. Ganjei, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, said: "These chips are the building blocks of AI superiority and are integral to modern military applications. The country that controls these chips will control AI technology; the country that controls AI technology will control the future." Ganjei's stark warning to anyone plotting to send Nvidia's top end chips to China came as US President Donald Trump gave the green light to Nvidia to ship its H200 parts to China,"
"According to the DoJ, Alan Hao Hsu, also known as Haochun Hsu, 43, of Missouri City, Texas, and his company, Hao Global LLC, "pleaded guilty to smuggling and unlawful export activities" of at least $160 million worth of export-controlled Nvidia H100 and H200 Tensor Core GPUs. Hsu will be sentenced in February, and faces up to ten years in the slammer."
US authorities dismantled a smuggling network accused of funneling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Nvidia GPUs to China. The Department of Justice said the network posed a direct threat to US security by attempting to place advanced AI-capable chips in adversarial hands. A defendant, Alan Hao Hsu and his company pleaded guilty to smuggling at least $160 million in export-controlled H100 and H200 GPUs; Hsu faces up to ten years and will be sentenced in February. Another executive, Benlin Yuan, was arrested and charged with conspiring to violate export control laws and faces up to 20 years.
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