Taiwan Indicts Nine in AI Server Smuggling Case Tied to NVIDIA and Supermicro
The indictment names insiders at NVIDIA and Supermicro as participants in a scheme to bypass export controls on AI servers bound for China, marking a direct enforcement action against the companies' own staff.
Reporting from 1 source: GIGAZINE.
Taiwan's Keelung District Prosecutors Office indicted nine people, including employees of NVIDIA's Taiwan branch and Supermicro, over an alleged scheme to smuggle high-performance AI servers to China. The case centers on Supermicro "B300" servers equipped with NVIDIA chips whose export to China is prohibited. The alleged mastermind remains wanted.
The alleged mastermind is Chen O-jie, the de facto head of server trading company Feihu Technology, and the only defendant still wanted. Prosecutors say Chen, along with Feihu accounting manager Chen Min-yan, NVIDIA Taiwan senior partner manager Zhang Deng-long, Supermicro Taiwan senior sales associate Lin Chang-chun, and Ching Yun International Technology accounting manager Lu Yang-kai, planned to resell the B300 servers and smuggle them to China.
Supermicro's Lin allegedly leaked the server sales review process and helped Feihu prepare forged documents. NVIDIA's Zhang reportedly falsely reported that on-site inspection was completed, arranging for Supermicro to approve shipment. Chief Telecom product manager Tsai Yi-da and Changying International Trade head Wang O-ping are accused of creating the appearance of an operating server room for inspections.
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