Taiwanese court has ordered the detention of two Super Micro employees as part of a widening investigation into whether AI servers built with Nvidia chips were illegally routed to China.
The Keelung District Court detained the pair, identified in Taiwanese press as managers surnamed Wang and Lin, on the night of June 30 into July 1, alongside a vice president at Albatron Technology, a Super Micro distributor.
Two additional employees at a separate firm, Chief Telecom, were questioned and released on bail, according to Taipei Times and Bloomberg reporting that both named the individuals involved.
Prosecutors at the Keelung District Prosecutors’ Office allege that export documents were falsified to disguise the true destination of high-end AI servers equipped with Nvidia’s GB300 chips, with this particular tranche valued at roughly NT$700 million, or about $22 million.
That figure is separate from, and considerably smaller than, the $2.5 billion smuggling scheme US federal prosecutors described in March when they indicted Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw alongside two colleagues.
