Supermicro co-founder charged in conspiracy to export Nvidia chips to China

ft - US prosecutors allege two employees and a contractor smuggled servers through south-east Asia

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Alleged smuggling ruse: dummy servers, swapped serial numbers, 'hairdryers'

SuperMicro Allegedly Smuggled $2.5B in NVIDIA Chips to China With Fake Servers, and Somehow Thought Nobody Was Watching

5 hrs / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

Super Micro employees accused of smuggling $2.5 billion worth of Nvidia hardware to China — perps used a hairdryer to move serial numbers between real hardware and thousands of dummy servers

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Supermicro co-founder arrested, charged over $2.5B Nvidia GPU sales to China

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DOJ charges Supermicro insiders in alleged Nvidia export scheme

Super Micro Co-Founder Charged With Smuggling $2.5 Billion of AI Tech Into China

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Supermicro co-founder charged with smuggling AI chips

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A Super Micro Computer founder diverted $2.5 billion worth of Nvidia chips to China, feds say

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Super Micro co-founder arrested over chip smuggling operation to China

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Supermicro CEO Charged with Breach of NVIDIA AI GPU Export Controls to China

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Supermicro’s co-founder was just arrested for allegedly smuggling $2.5 billion in GPUs to China

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Super Micro Computer Employees Arrested for Alleged Sales to China

18 hrs / wsj / Katherine Hamilton

3 men are charged with conspiring to smuggle US artificial intelligence to China

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U.S. Says 3 Tied to Silicon Valley Server Maker Broke Export Laws

19 hrs / nytimes / Kalley Huang and Ana Swanson

Supermicro co-founder charged in conspiracy to export Nvidia chips to China

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Super Micro co-founder, employee and contractor smuggled Nvidia chips to China, U.S. prosecutors charge

20 hrs / reddit / /u/Shogouki

U.S. tech execs smuggled Nvidia chips to China, prosecutors say

21 hrs / cnbc

U.S. tech execs smuggled Nvidia chips to China, prosecutors say

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Markets tumble; rivals like Dell gain after charges

Super Micro shares plunge on shocking smuggling case. One stock stands to benefit

5 hrs / cnbc

Chip-smuggling charges against Super Micro cofounder boost rival server maker Dell

5 hrs / sherwood / Matt Phillips

Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot

5 hrs / ycombinator

Dell (DELL) Stock Surges 3% While Super Micro (SMCI) Crashes 25% on Federal Charges

6 hrs / parameter / Trader Edge

Super Micro Computer stock is collapsing today. Investors flee as DOJ charges cofounder in AI China scheme

7 hrs / fastcompany / Michael Grothaus

Super Micro dives after co-founder charged with allegedly smuggling AI chips to China

8 hrs / sherwood / Hyunsoo Rim

Super Micro Computer (SMCI) Stock Plummets 22% Following Co-Founder’s Arrest in AI Chip Smuggling Case

10 hrs / parameter / Trader Edge


Rehire controversy: ties to prior Hindenburg accounting scandal

One of the guys arrested here was Wally Liaw, who Hindenburg named as one of the previous co-founders who resigned in 2018 during the previous Supermicro accounting scandal who got added BACK to the company in 2021, back on the board by 2023. This is bad!

17 hrs / bsky / @edzitron.com


All Other Stories

Three people have been charged with illegally exporting NVIDIA GPUs to China

1 hr / engadget / Ian Carlos Campbell

DOJ Charges Super Micro Co-Founder For Smuggling $2.5 Billion In Nvidia GPUs To China

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