Taiwan Seeks to Detain Three in Nvidia Smuggling Crackdown (1)

Taiwanese officials are seeking to detain three individuals for forging documents in order to export Nvidia Corp. AI chips to China, the island democracy’s first such crackdown on semiconductor smuggling.

The trio is accused of making fraudulent declarations about AI servers manufactured by US-headquartered Super Micro Computer Inc., so that they could ship them to China, Hong Kong and Macau in violation of US trade rules. Super Micro assembles AI chips from the likes of Nvidia into systems that are installed in data centers and used to train and run models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Washington has restricted sales of ...