California executive charged in $300M AI server smuggling scheme to China

US prosecutors charged Greg Lui, 38, owner of Earthmade Computer Inc., with illegally shipping more than $300 million in export-controlled servers with high-end Nvidia GPUs to China in 2023–2024. The servers allegedly went through Malaysia and Singapore with falsified documents; Earthmade received over $176 million from two Malaysia-based firms between January and October 2024.

• Lui faces up to 50 years in prison on three counts
• One deal involved 27 servers with Nvidia H100 GPUs worth about $7.6 million
• Earthmade received $176 million from two Malaysia-based firms in 2024
• Nvidia says less than 0.5% of its products were diverted to China