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Super Micro co-founder charged with smuggling $2.5 billion in Nvidia AI chips to China

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 24, 2026
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Federal prosecutors arrested the co-founder of Super Micro, one of the world’s largest makers of server and data-center hardware, for allegedly smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China through a front company in Southeast Asia. Yih-Shyan Liaw and two others (Ruei-Tsang Chang, a manager in Super Micro’s Taiwan office, and Ti…

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