The prosecutors’ document said Nvidia sales involving high-end AI servers are subject to a review process under export controls. Orders exceeding eight servers also require company employees to conduct on-site checks of customers, according to the filing.
Authorities allege that some defendants tried to work around those controls by creating false websites and supplying inaccurate information. Prosecutors also said a company established in Japan was used to facilitate the transfer of eight servers.
Four of the nine defendants face requests for the maximum five-year sentence. That group includes an Nvidia manager identified only by the family name Chang. Prosecutors described Chang as the “key figure” responsible for “authorizing the release of the B300 GPUs” and said he “demonstrated a clearly poor attitude following the offense.”
Nvidia said it plans to cooperate with the investigation. “We will work with the Taiwan authorities to help them resolve the allegations as quickly as possible,” spokesperson Patrick Rutherford said in a written statement.
Super Micro said the arrests of its two former employees followed the company’s cooperation with Taiwanese authorities. It also said it would continue working to “enhance its robust export compliance program to protect American innovation.”
The charges come against an existing backdrop of U.S. restrictions on advanced computing exports to China. Washington began limiting Nvidia’s shipments of advanced chips to China in 2022 and tightened those rules in later years. In April 2025, the U.S. imposed licensing requirements on exports of Nvidia H20 chips to China before allowing some sales to resume later that year.
This analysis is based on reporting from PBS News.
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