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Ting-Wei 'Willy' Sun, a former contractor charged alongside Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw, pleaded guilty to conspiring to smuggle about $2.5bn of AI servers powered by Nvidia chips to China in violation of US export controls.
The US arrested Earthmade Computer CEO Greg Lui for allegedly smuggling over $300 million in export-controlled Nvidia A100 and H100 GPU servers into China through Malaysia and Singapore, part of a broader pattern of Nvidia-related chip-smuggling cases.
An Nvidia employee has been detained by Taiwanese authorities in connection with a probe into the smuggling of chips to China.
Taiwanese prosecutors raided Super Micro's office as part of an investigation into AI chip smuggling to China, involving forged documents and dummy servers valued at $2.5 billion, marking a significant escalation in export enforcement that impacts supply chain due diligence.
Senator Tom Cotton alleges that a company named OBON, referencing China's Belt and Road Initiative, is smuggling US chips, and criticizes Super Micro for selling advanced technologies to them.