Taiwanese prosecutors have charged nine people for the illegal export of high-end AI servers to mainland China. Among those indicted are a senior Nvidia manager and two employees from Super Micro. The charges involve the smuggling of servers containing B300 graphics processing units, which have been banned from sale to China.
According to the Keelung District Prosecutors Office, eight of the defendants were charged with breach of trust and forging documents to facilitate the scheme. The group allegedly organized the shipment of 74 servers containing the high-end Nvidia chips into China by routing them through Japan and Indonesia.
This case marks Taiwan's first known crackdown on the black-market trade of such accelerators. As U.S. export controls push Chinese companies to seek Nvidia chips through backdoor routes, this incident adds further turbulence to the AI rivalry between China and the United States. The indictments follow reports that Jensen Huang scolded Supermicro for AI server smuggling.