Supermicro has published an open letter seeking to clarify reports from earlier this week that claimed the company’s Taiwanese office was raided as part of an ongoing probe into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia AI chips to China.In a statement, the company said the authorities have since confirmed that Supermicro “is not the target of this investigation,” adding that its offices in Taiwan were not in fact raided by any government authorities, as was “widely misreported” early in the week.However, Supermicro did confirm that four of its employees in Taiwan had been detained for questioning with regard to the company’s sale of products to an unnamed technology firm in the country, and that Supermicro worked with authorities to provide access to the desks and electronic devices of those workers.Two of the four employees have been detained pending a hearing, while the other two have been released on bail.“We have zero tolerance for anyone who violates the law or our internal policies, and the four employees were immediately placed on administrative leave pending the conclusion of the Taiwanese investigation,” the letter read, with Supermicro going on to note that it remains “committed to protect US interests and to safeguarding our advanced technologies and intellectual property for the benefit of our customers, our partners, our company and our industry.”In early June 2026, Supermicro publicly declared it was “committed to protecting our advanced technologies and intellectual property,” revealing in a statement that it had been working “closely with the Taiwanese authorities” to prevent the "illicit diversion of our highly sought-after systems into the restricted China market.“As a result of the collaboration, the authorities have seized 50 servers that had been “deceptively acquired after being sold by Supermicro to an authorized reseller,” the company said at the time.In March, three people with ties to Supermicro were charged by the US Department of Justice for allegedly conspiring to smuggle Nvidia AI chips into China. The indictment claimed that some $2.5 billion in servers were shipped to China, despite Supermicro lacking a Commerce Department license.The accused included Supermicro’s co-founder, Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, who resigned from Supermicro’s board of directors following his arrest. In early April, he pleaded not guilty to the charges in a Manhattan federal court.