Taiwan has indicted nine people over an alleged scheme to move high-end Nvidia AI servers to China in violation of US export controls. Reuters reported that the defendants include an Nvidia senior manager and two Taiwan-based Supermicro employees, although prosecutors did not publish their names.
Investigators say documents were falsified to show 130 B300 servers operating at a Taiwanese facility. Seventy-four were ultimately delivered to Chinese customers, while customs officials blocked another 56 after detecting irregularities. The charges include breach of trust and document forgery. A suspect in a related case remains at large.
Supermicro has said it is cooperating with investigators and is not itself a target of the Taiwanese probe. Ars Technica could not obtain comment from either company for this report. The allegations highlight the limits of export rules that depend on distributors and employees accurately documenting a complex supply chain. Proposed US rules could also address remote cloud access to restricted hardware, but would add compliance costs for cloud providers.