2 Chinese Nationals, 2 Americans Charged With Smuggling Nvidia Chips to China

The defendants allegedly used ‘a deliberate and deceptive effort to transship controlled NVIDIA GPUs to China,’ Assistant Attorney General John Eisenberg said.

In a file photograph, the logo of Nvidia Corporation during the annual Computex computer exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan, on May 30, 2017. Tyrone Siu/Reuters

Two Chinese nationals and two U.S. citizens have been charged with a scheme to illegally export advanced Nvidia chips to China in violation of U.S. export controls, the Department of Justice said on Nov. 20.

Li Cham, 38, a California resident, and Chen Jing, 45, who resides in Florida on an F-1 nonimmigrant student visa, are the two Chinese nationals accused of the illegal exporting scheme. The two U.S. citizens are Ho Hong Ning, 34, a Florida resident born in Hong Kong, and Brian Curtis Raymond, 46, who resides in Huntsville, Alabama.