{"id":866935,"date":"2026-08-24T17:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/866935\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T17:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:52:09","slug":"nvidia-worker-among-9-charged-in-taiwan-chip-smuggling-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/866935\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia worker among 9 charged in Taiwan chip smuggling case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine people in Taiwan, including a Nvidia worker, were charged on Monday over the illegal export of artificial intelligence servers to China, Taiwanese prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>The indictments follow an investigation into the shipment of \u201chigh-end\u201d AI servers made by Nasdaq-listed Super Micro Computer and containing advanced Nvidia chips to China in violation of US export controls.<\/p>\n<p>Eight of the nine defendants were charged with breach of trust and forging documents to smuggle 74 servers containing Nvidia chips to China, Keelung District Prosecutors Office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Of those servers, 50 were transhipped through Indonesia, eight were sent via Japan and the rest were exported directly to China. An additional 56 servers were seized at Taiwan\u2019s border, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the defendants have been charged with embezzlement. The United States restricts exports to China of the most cutting-edge silicon chips used to power artificial intelligence systems, designed by industry leader Nvidia.<\/p>\n<p>But it is not a criminal offence in Taiwan \u2014 a situation lawmakers and experts say needs to change \u2014 with Taiwanese prosecutors relying on other laws to go after offenders.<\/p>\n<p>The nine accused include two employees from Super Micro and one from Nvidia as well as one from Taiwan-listed Albatron Technology and another from Chief Telecom, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Nvidia nor Super Micro immediately responded to AFP\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said they were seeking sentences of up to five years in jail for seven defendants who were \u201cdriven by the pursuit of exorbitant profits\u201d to collude in the illegal export of the servers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis not only increased corporate compliance costs but also severely damaged the nation\u2019s international image,\u201d the prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>They were seeking more lenient sentences for the other two defendants who had confessed to all charges and cooperated with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/china\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"China\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">China<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine people in Taiwan, including a Nvidia worker, were charged on Monday over the illegal export of 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