{"id":1041273,"date":"2026-10-06T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T05:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041273"},"modified":"2026-10-06T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T05:35:53","slug":"california-man-arrested-on-charges-of-smuggling-banned-nvidia-chips-to-china-follows-arrest-of-super-micro-computer-founder-may-face-20-years-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/06\/california-man-arrested-on-charges-of-smuggling-banned-nvidia-chips-to-china-follows-arrest-of-super-micro-computer-founder-may-face-20-years-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"California man arrested on charges of smuggling banned Nvidia chips to China; follows arrest of Super Micro Computer founder, may face 20 years in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A California man has been arrested over alleged chip smuggling. The 38-year-old owner of San Gabriel Valley-based Earthmade Computer Inc. is accused of smuggling more than $300 million worth of export-controlled computer servers containing US-manufactured graphics processing units (GPUs) to China. Prosecutors allege that Greg Lui, also known as \u201cYiu Kong Lui\u201d, used false paperwork and routed the high-end servers through countries including Malaysia and Singapore before they were allegedly re-exported to China.<\/p>\n<p>The case follows US authorities&#8217; separate arrest of Super Micro Computer co-founder Yih-Shyan \u201cWally\u201d Liaw in connection with an alleged scheme to divert Nvidia-powered AI servers to China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California man has been arrested over alleged chip smuggling. The 38-year-old owner of San Gabriel Valley-based Earthmade Computer Inc. is accused of smuggling more than $300 million worth of export-controlled computer servers containing US-manufactured graphics processing units (GPUs) to China. Prosecutors allege that Greg Lui, also known as \u201cYiu Kong Lui\u201d, used false paperwork and routed the high-end servers through countries including Malaysia and Singapore before they were allegedly re-exported to China. The case follows US authorities&#8217; separate arrest of Super Micro Computer co-founder Yih-Shyan \u201cWally\u201d Liaw in connection with an alleged scheme to divert Nvidia-powered AI servers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041274,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041273\/revisions\/1041274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}