Two Chinese nationals and two Americans have been arrested for allegedly illegally exporting cutting-edge Nvidia chips with artificial intelligence applications to China, the Justice Department said Thursday.

The two Chinese nationals are Cham Li, 38, residing in California, and Jing Chen, 45, who is on an F-1 nonimmigrant student visa and resides in Tampa, Florida, the department said . The two Americans are Hon Ning Ho, 34, who resides in Florida, and Brian Curtis Raymond, 46, who resides in Alabama. The four men are charged with conspiring to violate the Export Control Reform Act and money laundering. It wasn't immediately clear if they had lawyers who could speak on their behalf.

Justice Department officials allege that the four conspired to illegally export advanced Nvidia graphic

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