Taiwan Indicts Nine Over Scheme to Smuggle 74 Nvidia AI Servers

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Taiwan has indicted nine people - reportedly including an Nvidia senior manager and two Supermicro employees - for allegedly forging documents to conceal illegal exports of high-end AI servers to China in violation of US export controls, prosecutors in Keelung confirmed on Monday.

According to Reuters via Ars Technica, the suspects are charged with breach of trust and document forgery. Investigators found that co-conspirators falsified records to make it appear that 130 B300 servers were installed at a Taiwan facility. In reality, 74 were exported and delivered to Chinese customers, while customs officials intercepted the remaining 56 after detecting irregularities. One additional suspect connected to a related case remains at large, accused of siphoning funds from a distributor involved in the scheme.

Taiwan opened its probe after the US arrested Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw in March, accused of funneling $2.5 billion in restricted AI servers to China since 2024. Supermicro has said it is cooperating with Taiwanese authorities and has already fired employees linked to the scheme through an internal third-party investigation. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had previously called on Supermicro to improve its compliance program, saying: “We insist our partners are compliant. We hope that they will enhance and improve their regulation compliance and prevent that from happening in the future.”

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