The paperwork said all 130 servers would stay in Taiwan. 74 reached China; customs caught the rest.
Taiwan's Keelung District Prosecutors' Office indicted nine people on Monday over the resale of Supermicro AI servers fitted with Nvidia B300 GPUs to buyers in China. Among the defendants are a distribution manager at Nvidia's own Taiwan office — described by prosecutors as the key figure who authorised release of the chips — two sales managers at Supermicro's Taiwan branch, and the chief executive of a Supermicro distributor. End-user documents claimed the 130 servers would be installed at a rented facility in Taiwan. Seventy-four went to Chinese customers, some shipped directly and some routed through Indonesia, Japan and Hong Kong; customs spotted irregularities and stopped the other 56. Prosecutors are seeking the five-year maximum for four of the nine.
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