{"rewrite":{"id":"r_14eec40ddae7c5d7b16ea2a8","clusterId":"c_8bf68a38e7b44e5e2268e3f5","slug":"california-ceo-arrested-over-smuggling-of-nvidia-gpus-to-china","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"California CEO Arrested Over Smuggling of NVIDIA GPUs to China","summary":"Greg Lui, 38, CEO of Earthmade Computer, was arrested on a three-count federal indictment. He is accused of conspiring with five others to ship export-controlled servers carrying NVIDIA A100, H100, GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs to customers in China without U.S. Commerce Department licenses, routing goods through Malaysia and Singapore. Prosecutors put the total value above $300 million.","whyItMatters":"The charges turn on the routing workaround rather than the hardware itself: unlicensed shipments went first to Malaysia and Singapore, where no license applies, and from there into China.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eEarthmade Computer, based in the City of Industry in Los Angeles County, sells third-party hardware including Supermicro, an NVIDIA partner. According to the indictment, the shipments ran from October 2023 to August, with export documents falsified while Lui knew the end users were in China.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo Malaysia-based companies paid Earthmade more than $176 million, prosecutors say. A separate City of Industry company, Topmost Corp, which offered access to NVIDIA GPUs through cloud servers, is also named in the indictment.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"A California tech CEO is charged with smuggling over $300 million in NVIDIA GPUs to China. Prosecutors say export documents were falsified and goods routed through Malaysia and Singapore to avoid licensing.","twitterPost":"California CEO Greg Lui is charged with smuggling over $300 million in NVIDIA GPUs to China. Prosecutors say servers went through Malaysia and Singapore to dodge export licenses.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"The CEO of a California technology company has been arrested and indicted on three federal counts tied to smuggling export-controlled GPU servers to China. Prosecutors say the shipments ran from October 2023 to August, routed through Malaysia and Singapore, and were worth more than $300 million in total. The servers carried NVIDIA A100, H100, GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"GIGAZINE\",\"url\":\"https://gigazine.net/news/20261007-ceo-charged-nvidia-gpu-smuggling-china/\",\"title\":\"CEO of American technology company arrested on suspicion of smuggling NVIDIA GPUs including GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 5090 into China\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4697,"outputTokens":560,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791331629,"createdAt":"2026-10-07T00:01:32.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-07T00:06:06.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-07T00:06:06.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_8bf68a38e7b44e5e2268e3f5","canonicalTitle":"NVIDIA製GPU「GeForce RTX 4090」「GeForce RTX 5090」などを中国に密輸した疑いでアメリカのテクノロジー企業CEOが逮捕される","representativeArticleId":"a_216363a830d362ec45006b31","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"GeForce RTX 4090\",\"GeForce RTX 5090\"],\"studios\":[\"NVIDIA\"],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"industry\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-06T23:00:00.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-06T23:00:00.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-07T00:06:06.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"GIGAZINE","url":"https://gigazine.net/news/20261007-ceo-charged-nvidia-gpu-smuggling-china/","title":"NVIDIA製GPU「GeForce RTX 4090」「GeForce RTX 5090」などを中国に密輸した疑いでアメリカのテクノロジー企業CEOが逮捕される"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["GeForce RTX 4090","GeForce RTX 5090"],"studios":["NVIDIA"],"people":[],"type":"news","domain":"industry","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}