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Supermicro fired staff after probe into $2.5 billion GPUs-to-China smuggling operation

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Policies and code of conduct breached

Supermicro has fired some staff after conducting an investigation into allegations that its execs participated in a scheme to ship $2.5 billion worth of servers packing Nvidia GPUs to China, in violation of US export controls.

In March, the US Department of Justice indicted Supermicro co-founder Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw, one of the company’s Taiwan-based execs Ruei-Tsang "Steven" Chang, and a man thought to act as a broker, Ting-Wei "Willy" Sun, with conspiring to violate the Export Controls Reform Act, conspiring to smuggle goods and defrauding the US government.

Supermicro promised to investigate and on Thursday delivered its verdict: nobody on its current senior management team “had knowledge of the alleged diversion scheme or of any actual diversion of restricted products by the Company.”

“Nor did the investigation find that the Company directly sold export-controlled products to known restricted parties or locations. It also...

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