Super Micro co-founder indicted on Nvidia smuggling charges quit board
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Super Micro Computer He said co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw resigned from the server maker’s board of directors after he was indicted in the United States on allegations of smuggling equipment including: Nvidia Artificial intelligence chips were sent to China.
The federal court announced the indictment on Thursday. Although the company was not specified, Liaw, Super Micro’s senior vice president of business development, was appointed, as well as sales manager Ruei-Tsan “Steven” Chang and contractor Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun. Super Micro said it placed Liaw and Chang on administrative leave and stopped working with Sun.
“Following Mr. Liaw’s resignation, the Company’s Board of Directors consists of eight directors,” Super Micro said in a statement. Press release Late Friday. “There are no changes to the committee structure of the board.”
Following the indictment, Super Micro shares lost 33% of their value in normal trading.
The company said in a statement: expression Late Friday, it appointed DeAnna Luna, an executive who joined the company. Intel as acting chief compliance officer in 2024. Luna, according to him, was vice president of global trade and sanctions compliance. LinkedIn profile.
According to the indictment, a Southeast Asian brokerage company prepared false documents that appeared to use the servers. He had a separate logistics company repackage the servers to disguise them before they left for China.
According to the indictment, the defendants attempted to deceive the server company’s compliance team with “fake” servers at the Southeast Asian company’s storage facilities, while the real servers had already been shipped to China. They pressured compliance staff to approve shipments and allegedly used “fake” servers during a visit by a US export control officer.
The indictment stated that these efforts generated approximately $2.5 billion in sales for the server maker since 2024, and that the servers were sold to the Southeast Asian company and then to China for $510 million between late April 2025 and mid-May 2025. The plaintiff said the server maker did not have a U.S. Department of Commerce license to export servers containing Nvidia GPUs to China.
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