Taiwan detained three suspects for allegedly smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China via Japan, seizing 50 Supermicro servers worth over $15M in a first-of-its-kind crackdown.

Taiwan detains three suspects for smuggling Nvidia AI servers to China via forged documents, marking the island's first semiconductor export control enforcement.

Taiwanese prosecutors suspect at least one shipment of US-restricted Nvidia AI chips was smuggled to China via Japan, in Taiwan’s first public AI-chip diversion case.