Super Micro Co-Founder Pleads Not Guilty in China Smuggling Case

Super Micro Computer Inc. co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw pleaded not guilty Wednesday in New York to charges that he helped illegally divert billions of dollars in Nvidia Corp.-powered servers to China in a hearing in Manhattan.

Liaw was charged by federal prosecutors in a scheme to send US-assembled servers containing Nvidia’s cutting-edge chips to Chinese customers in violation of US export controls. The case represents the highest-profile crackdown on alleged smuggling of restricted AI technology to China.

The US claims Liaw and two others associated with Super Micro sold the hardware to an unidentified Southeast Asian pass-through company and ...