Nine charged in Taiwan over 130 Nvidia B300 servers bound for China
Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted nine people over the alleged illegal export of high-end AI servers to China, among them an employee of Nvidia’s Taiwan operation and two from Super Micro.
The charges are the first to emerge from an investigation that has run for months, having already produced detentions over server smuggling and reached inside Nvidia itself.
The mechanism prosecutors describe is documentary rather than technical. The group is accused of producing false paperwork stating that 130 Nvidia B300 servers would remain in Taiwan, when the intention was to move them to Chinese customers.
Seventy-four of those servers made it out, routed through China, Indonesia, Japan, and Hong Kong before reaching their buyers. Taiwanese customs intercepted the remaining 56, which had been declared for Japan.
Eight of the nine face charges of breach of trust and document forgery. The ninth faces separate charges relating to the alleged siphoning of...
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