US imposed sweeping export controls <\/a>on technology to China to slow Beijing\u2019s military modernization and began to require licenses for the chips. China opposed the US move as harming normal trade.\n <\/p>\n\n Over 20 shipments from ALX went to shipping and freight forwarding companies in Singapore and Malaysia, which are often used as transshipment points for illegal goods to China, a federal agent, who works for the Commerce Department, said in the affidavit.\n <\/p>\n
\n ALX received a $1 million payment from a China-based company in January 2024 and other payments from companies in Hong Kong and China, not from the freight forwarding companies, the agent said.\n <\/p>\n
\n Nvidia H100s are advanced chips that can be used to train large language models and many other applications.\n <\/p>\n
\n Records show that from at least August 2023 to July 2024, ALX Solutions bought over 200 Nvidia H100 chips from San Jose, California-based server maker Super Micro Computer, declaring that the customers were in Singapore and Japan, the agent said.\n <\/p>\n
\n On one 2023 invoice valued at $28,453,855, ALX said the customer was in Singapore, but a US export control officer in Singapore could not verify the chips arrived in the country and the company did not exist at the listed location, the document says.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThis case demonstrates that smuggling is a nonstarter,\u201d a Nvidia spokesperson said in a statement. \u201cWe primarily sell our products to well-known partners\u2026who help us ensure that all sales comply with U.S. export control rules.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Diverted products have \u201cno service, support or updates,\u201d the statement added.\n <\/p>\n
\n Super Micro said in a statement it was \u201cfirmly committed to compliance with all U.S. export control regulations.\u201d It said it did not comment on ongoing legal matters, but cooperated with authorities in any such proceedings.\n <\/p>\n
\n Geng and Yang appeared in federal court in Los Angeles on Monday, the Justice Department said. Geng, a permanent resident, was released on $250,000 bond. Yang, who overstayed her visa, has a detention hearing on August 12.\n <\/p>\n
\n Lawyers for the defendants did not respond to requests for comment.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link Reuters \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Two Chinese nationals in California were arrested and charged with illegally shipping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-64502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}