A Southern California businessman has been arrested on federal charges alleging he smuggled more than $300 million worth of servers loaded with restricted Nvidia AI chips to China, the Justice Department announced.
Greg Lui, 38, also known as Yiu Kong Lui, of San Gabriel, was arrested October 1 on a three-count indictment: conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act, outbound smuggling and conspiracy to commit money laundering. He owns Earthmade Computer Inc. in the City of Industry.
Prosecutors allege that between 2023 and 2024, Lui and unnamed co-conspirators used Earthmade to buy high-end servers packed with Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs — the restricted hardware that powers large-scale AI computing — without the Commerce Department licences required for export to China. Shipments were routed through Malaysia and Singapore on falsified paperwork; one January 2024 order covered 27 H100-packed servers worth about $7.6 million shipped from Los Angeles County to Kuala Lumpur before being transshipped to a Chinese customer.
Between January and October 2024 alone, Earthmade received more than $176 million from two Malaysia-based shipping companies, according to the indictment. Lui faces up to 20 years on each conspiracy count and 10 years on the smuggling count; prosecutors sought detention without bail, calling him a flight risk. The case follows the March 2026 charge against a Super Micro co-founder over similar Nvidia chip diversion.
