Federal investigators have arrested two Chinese nationals accused of smuggling Nvidia’s RTX 4090 and 5090 graphics cards and H100 AI GPUs into China – in violation of US export controls. The 28-year-old suspects, Chuan Geng and Shiwei Yang, allegedly carried out the smuggling scheme from their Los Angeles area company, ALX Solutions, the Justice Department says. The smuggling activities occurred from October 2022 to July 2025. The criminal complaint says the two suspects were found shipping Nvidia products to Malaysia in December 2024. The shipment contained 117 Graphic Cards with a value of $176,500 and two Graphical Processing Unit Base Boards, with a value of $4,000. The US has blocked shipments of RTX 4090 and other high-end Nvidia GPUs to China to prevent the Chinese government from securing advanced chips to bolster its AI ambitions. #nvidia #rtx #china #graphiccards #technews