By Ana Maria Constantin
Publication Date: 2026-08-24 15:10:00
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 alongside him. They include two senior Super Micro employees and staff from four more firms, among them the reseller Albatron and Flying Tiger, named as the purported end user.
The economics explain the risk. TNW has reported B300 servers changing hands in China for around $1mn apiece, close to double the American price.
What should trouble the industry is the safeguard that failed. Super Micro’s Taiwan arm will not sell to a buyer that has not passed checks by its own and Nvidia’s staff, including an in-person audit for orders of eight units or…
