Chuan Geng and Shiwei Yang also allegedly shipped Nvidia's H100 GPU to the country despite US export controls meant to block the import of high-end GPUs.

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.

Chuan Geng and Shiwei Yang are accused of exporting the chips from the US to China through Singapore and Malaysia.