Taiwan Seeks to Detain Three in AI Chip Smuggling Crackdown

Taiwan Seeks to Detain Three in AI Chip Smuggling Crackdown

By Mackenzie HawkinsYian Lee
Publication Date: 2026-05-21 07:39:00

Taiwanese officials are seeking to detain three individuals for forging documents in order to export Nvidia Corp. AI chips to China, the island democracy’s first such crackdown on semiconductor smuggling.