By Steve Dent
Publication Date: 2026-08-24 10:02:00
The nine individuals are accused of ‘severely damaged our nation’s image,’ prosecutors said.
Although the US has relaxed its restrictions on NVIDIA AI chip exports to China, illegal exports apparently still take place. Prosecutors in Taiwan just indicted nine individuals, including NVIDIA and Super Micro employees, for illegally bringing AI servers into China, Reuters reported.
The defendants “colluded with one another at various levels for enormous profit, illegally exporting high-end servers, increasing corporate compliance costs, and severely damaging our nation’s international image,” prosecutors from the northern city of Keelung said in a statement. They did this, the team added, despite being “fully aware” of NVIDIA and Super Micro’s “rigorous” export control procedures.
Although NVIDIA is an American company, most of its chips are manufactured by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest chip maker by far. TSMC’s latest Blackwell AI chips are manufactured in Phoenix,…