Super Micro co-founder, employee and contractor smuggled Nvidia chips to China, U.S. prosecutors charge

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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York has charged associates of an unidentified U.S. server maker with illegally diverting billions of dollars in artificial intelligence servers to China.

The U.S. government has been trying to figure out how high-powered chips have reached China without authorization, as American companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI face challenges from DeepSeek and other Chinese rivals.

In an indictment unsealed on Thursday, the U.S. government alleged that Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, Ruei-Tsan “Steven” Chang and Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun worked together to violate the Export Control Reform Act.

Liaw is a co-founder of server maker Super Micro Computer