The fixer in a billion-dollar Nvidia smuggling case pleaded guilty.
Ting-Wei Sun, a contractor for server maker Super Micro, pleaded guilty in New York on Thursday. Prosecutors say the ring sent 2.5 billion dollars of Nvidia-powered servers to China and staged dummies for an inspector. Super Micro's co-founder denies the same charges and goes on trial on 2 November.
Why it mattersExport bans on AI chips only work if someone gets caught breaking them. A guilty plea from the middleman raises the pressure on the bigger trial next month.
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