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4 People Indicted in Alleged Conspiracy to Smuggle Supercomputers and Nvidia Chips to China

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Feed Name: WIRED Security

Threat Score
60/100

Date Published: 2025-11-20

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Paresh Dave

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U.S. authorities allege four people in Florida, Alabama, and California conspired to buy and illegally export about 400 Nvidia A100 GPUs, attempted to smuggle H200 chips, and sought to ship Hewlett Packard Enterprise supercomputers containing H100s to China via a sham real-estate front and doctored customs paperwork; prosecutors say two Chinese companies paid nearly $3.9M and warn the advanced chips could be used for military, surveillance, disinformation, and cybersecurity applications.

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