Three suspects, including a Super Micro senior vice president, are accused of exporting US-restricted servers through false documents to Japan and then on to mainland China.
Taiwanese prosecutors suspect that three individuals successfully smuggled at least one shipment of Nvidia AI chips to mainland China after first exporting them to Japan, according to a Bloomberg report on Wednesday citing people familiar with the investigation.
The case is Taiwan’s first public criminal prosecution related to AI-chip diversion, and it has unusually sharp implications for both Tokyo and Washington.The three suspects were detained last week by Taiwan’s Keelung District Prosecutors Office.
They are accused of falsifying export-declaration documents to conceal that Super Micro Computer servers containing US-restricted Nvidia chips were ultimately destined for China.
The named individuals are Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, a senior vice president of business development at Super Micro and a member of the company’s board, Ruei-Tsang “Steven” Chang, a Taiwan-based sales manager, and Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun, a contractor.
