So what, specifically, is everyone so worried about?
She is CEO of Megaspeed , who bought $4.8B of nVidia chips and then sold $2B to the Chinese state illegally. There are crimes here, including:
Individuals and corporations caught illegally exporting restricted hardware (such as Nvidia H100 or Blackwell-series GPUs) are prosecuted under serious federal and international trade statutes:
Export Control Violations: Breaking the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA) and Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) regulations by shipping restricted high-performance computing tech without a license
Smuggling & Fraud: Charges related to smuggling goods from the United States, wire fraud, and using falsified end-user documentation or shell companies.
Those chips were not legal to sell to China. This would involve collusion between Nvidia and Megaspeed.
…TBH I expect Jensen to avoid prosecution or just get a pardon. Though the incentives behind that are complicated too, as many actors (like OpenAI and X) would very much like their future hardware competitor to be weakened.
She is CEO of Megaspeed , who bought $4.8B of nVidia chips and then sold $2B to the Chinese state illegally. There are crimes here, including:
Individuals and corporations caught illegally exporting restricted hardware (such as Nvidia H100 or Blackwell-series GPUs) are prosecuted under serious federal and international trade statutes:
Export Control Violations: Breaking the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA) and Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) regulations by shipping restricted high-performance computing tech without a license
Smuggling & Fraud: Charges related to smuggling goods from the United States, wire fraud, and using falsified end-user documentation or shell companies.
Those chips were not legal to sell to China. This would involve collusion between Nvidia and Megaspeed.
I see.
Yeah that is serious.
…TBH I expect Jensen to avoid prosecution or just get a pardon. Though the incentives behind that are complicated too, as many actors (like OpenAI and X) would very much like their future hardware competitor to be weakened.