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US charges Chinese nationals with illegally shipping Nvidia chips to China

The men face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison if convicted under the Export Control Reform Act [Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP]

Authorities in the United States have charged two Chinese citizens with shipping tens of millions of dollars’ worth of advanced Nvidia chips to China in breach of export controls.

Chuan Geng and Shiwei Yang are alleged to have “knowingly and willfully” exported the graphic processing units (GPUs) used to power artificial intelligence without authorisation from October 2022 to July 2025, the US Department of Justice said on Tuesday.

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