Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted a senior Nvidia manager as part of a group that allegedly smuggled advanced artificial intelligence chips into China, according to people familiar with the matter, advancing the island democracy’s first known crackdown on the black-market trade of such accelerators. Nvidia’s employee, surnamed Chang, is alleged along with eight others to have organized the shipment of 74 servers containing high-end B300 chips into China via Japan and Indonesia, circumventing U.S. trade restrictions. He could not be reached after he was initially detained last month.
The group attempted to also smuggle another 56 servers, which were seized by Taiwanese authorities, according to the indictment. Besides the Nvidia worker, Taiwan indicted two senior employees of Super Micro Computer, which manufactured the hardware in question, said the people, who asked not to be named in order to identify defendants that the indictment didn’t name in full.
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