Shares of Super Micro Computer Inc. fell 33% on Friday after U.S. prosecutors charged the company's co-founder and director, Liao, and two others with conspiring to illegally ship servers equipped with NVIDIA artificial intelligence chips worth $2.5 billion to Chinese customers. The case, announced by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and investigated by the FBI, is called one of the largest cases of AI chip exports ever prosecuted by U.S. law enforcement. Prosecutors said the defendants used a Southeast Asian company as an "intermediary entity" to transport servers from Taiwan to mainland China, and concealed the contents of the goods by repackaging and using unmarked containers. The case also states that more than $510 million worth of NVIDIA servers assembled in the U.S. were transported to China between late April and mid-May 2025. Liao and a contractor have been arrested, while another Taiwanese sales manager remains at large. Super Micro stated that the involved employees have been suspended and the company has terminated its partnership with the contractor. The company itself was not named as a defendant, and Liao has also resigned from his director position.
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