A 38-year-old Chinese national living in the East Bay was among four men arrested this week for allegedly exporting restricted Nvidia chips to China, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

San Leandro resident Cham Li, also known as Tony Li, was one of two Chinese nationals and two U.S. citizens taken into custody on federal criminal charges that they took part in a scheme to illegally export cutting-edge NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units with AI applications, to China, authorities said.

The other three are 34-year-old Hon Ning Ho, aka "Mathew Ho," a U.S. citizen born in Hong Kong living in Tampa, Florida; 46-year-old Brian Curtis Raymond, a U.S. citizen living in Huntsville, Alabama; and 45-year-old Jing Chen, also known as Harry Chen, a Chinese national on F-1 nonimmigrant student visa from

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