Taiwan indicts Nvidia manager over chips shipped to China
Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted a senior Nvidia manager and eight others over an alleged scheme that shipped 74 servers containing B300 chips to China via Japan and Indonesia. They are seeking five years for forgery and breach of trust.
The first known criminal case against an Nvidia employee over AI chip smuggling has reached indictment. Taiwanese prosecutors have charged a senior manager surnamed Chang, whom they call the “core figure” of the scheme, and are seeking five years for forgery and breach of trust.
He was detained in July, and Bloomberg has been unable to reach him since. Nvidia as a company has not been accused of wrongdoing.
The volumes are modest by black-market standards and specific by legal ones. Seventy-four servers containing high-end B300 chips allegedly reached China through Japan and Indonesia, and another 56 were seized before they could leave.
Eight others were charged...
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