The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/11/25/east-bay-man-at-center-of-alleged-scheme-to-smuggle-nvidia-supercomputers-and-ai-chips-to-china/The DOJ arrested a San Leandro man and three others as part of an alleged conspiracy to evade US trade laws by smuggling powerful Nvidia GPUs and AI chips to China through Thailand and Malaysia. The man allegedly bragged that his dad did the same work for the CCP. As Bay Area News Group reports, Cham “Tony” Li, 38, a Chinese national who lives in San Leandro, was arrested last week, along with three others who live in Florida and Alabama, for attempting to allegedly export millions of dollars worth of restricted top-of-the-line Nvidia technology to China. Per a press release from the US Department Of Justice, the United States

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