Two Chinese nationals living in California – one illegally – were arrested for smuggling tens of millions of dollars worth of high-powered Nvidia AI chips to Beijing, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

The pair allegedly shipped advanced graphic processing units, including Nvidia H100 GPUs and Nvidia 4090 GPUs, to China from October 2022 to July 2025 through their El Monte-based company, ALX Solutions, according to an affidavit filed with the complaint in US District Court in Los Angeles.

Chuan Geng, 28, of Pasadena, and Shiwei Yang, 28, of El Monte, were charged with violating the Export Control Reform Act, a felony that carries a maximum of 20 years in federal prison.

Yang, an illegal alien who overstayed her visa, was arrested on Saturday and Geng, a lawful permanent resident, surr

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