Supermicroaccused of smuggling $2.5 billion in Nvidia chips and servers to Chinahas been here before, with Iran
News Source : Fortune
News Summary
- Supermicro co-founder Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw was charged on Thursday with conspiring to smuggle about $2.5 billion worth of highly coveted Nvidia GPUs in servers to China.
- Prosecutors claim that Liaw, along with Supermicro’s Taiwan general manager Ruei-Tsang “Steven” Chang, and a “fixer” named Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun, routed servers with banned Nvidia H200 and B200 GPUs through an unnamed Southeast Asian company.
- In 2006, Supermicro pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally exporting computer equipment to Iran, and paid a $150,000 fine to the Department of Justice.
Supermicro has spent the past three years riding the AI wave in Silicon Valley but before the recent allegations involving a cofounder smuggling Nvidia chips, it previously ran afoul of exportcontr [+9352 chars]
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