Federal prosecutors indicted and arrested Mathew Ho, Brian Curtis Raymond, Tony Li, and Harry Chen for conspiring to illegally export advanced Nvidia GPUs and Hewlett Packard Enterprise supercomputers to China and Hong Kong.The defendants used a sham company, Janford Realtor LLC, to smuggle about 50 H200 GPUs, 400 A100 GPUs, and 10 supercomputers through Malaysia and Thailand, with some shipments intercepted carrying payments between $3.89 million and $4 million.Each faces charges including conspiracy, export violations, smuggling, and money laundering, risking up to 20 years imprisonment, while Nvidia confirmed strict export controls on its AI chips.