Nvidia has always acted in their own interest.

Legally. But those chips were illegal to directly sell to China. Huang and Huang have put nvidia at huge risk, which has lost people billions in investments, which places nvidia at a legal liability from stockholders. There will be a class action, whether a corrupt DOJ does anything or not about the smuggling.

You can't just fuck around with side hustles as CEO of a public company. Does Huang think he's the President?

'Criminal' activity usually involves a victim. There is no victim here. There's a good chance the sanction was in fact not legal anyway, but even if it was... do we really need news every time someone commits a minor civil offense? Should I be publishing a newspaper every time someone in China uses the pirate bay?