The most high-profile AI chip smuggling prosecution in US history landed in a Manhattan federal court when three men linked to server giant Super Micro Computer were charged with secretly diverting at least $2.5 billion worth of restricted Nvidia GPU-equipped servers to China in violation of US export controls. The unsealed indictment charges Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, 71, Ruei-Tsang “Steven” Chang, 53, and Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun, 44, with conspiring to divert high-performance computer servers assembled in the United States and integrating sophisticated US artificial intelligence technology to China, in violation of…
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