Theregister Supermicro Co-Founder Arrested for Smuggling $2.5B in Nvidia GPUs to China
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- •Three individuals, including a Supermicro co-founder, were arrested for smuggling GPUs to China.
- •The defendants allegedly diverted $2.5 billion worth of servers with AI technology through false documentation.
- •Supermicro is cooperating with the investigation, but the company itself is not charged.
Yih-Shyan 'Wally' Liaw, co-founder of Supermicro, was arrested along with two accomplices for allegedly diverting $2.5 billion worth of Nvidia GPUs to China, violating U.S. export controls. The Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed an indictment charging Liaw, Ruei-Tsang 'Steven' Chang, and Ting-Wei 'Willy' Sun with conspiracy to smuggle goods and defraud the U.S. The scheme involved using false documents, dummy servers, and complex shipping methods to disguise the true destination of the servers. Liaw and Sun are in custody, while Chang remains at large. The indictment details a systematic effort to evade export laws, with the defendants allegedly diverting advanced AI technology to Chinese customers. The DOJ claims that the defendants created fake documents and staged non-functional servers for inspections to mislead authorities. Supermicro is cooperating with the investigation but is not named as a defendant.
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