The Thai end of the Supermicro chip-smuggling case has a name, and it sits inside Bangkok’s national AI plan
US prosecutors believe a company at the centre of Thailand’s national AI strategy helped move billions of dollars in Nvidia-equipped Supermicro servers into China, with Alibaba among the eventual customers, Bloomberg reported on Friday.
The company is OBON Corp., a Bangkok-based AI infrastructure firm that has been a public partner of Thailand’s National AI Strategy and that has positioned itself as a regional cloud and supercomputing provider.
Bloomberg’s sources identify OBON as the entity referred to in the March 2026 federal indictment of Supermicro co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw and two associates only as “Company-1”.
Liaw was arrested in March on charges of conspiring to violate the Export Controls Reform Act and faces up to 20 years on the lead count.
Prosecutors say he and a “rotating cast” of brokers used the Southeast Asian intermediary to buy and re-route around $2.5bn of servers between 2024 and 2025, with falsified shipping paperwork,...
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