Taiwan's Keelung District Prosecutors Office on Monday raided Super Micro Computer's local office, the residences of six individuals, and three affiliated companies, widening an investigation into the alleged diversion of Nvidia-equipped servers to China. The companies searched alongside Supermicro's Taiwan operation included data center operator Chief Telecom and Albatron Technology, a Supermicro distributor.

The raid extends a probe prosecutors opened in May, when they searched roughly a dozen locations tied to Supermicro over claims that high-end servers carrying Nvidia chips were routed to China, Hong Kong, and Macau using forged documents and fraudulent customs declarations. Monday's searches mark the first time the Taiwan probe has reached named affiliated companies rather than Supermicro alone.

The investigation runs alongside a US case built on the same underlying scheme. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed an indictment in March charging Supermicro co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, Taiwan operations manager Ruei-Tsang “Steven” Chang, and contractor Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun with conspiring to violate US export-control law. Prosecutors allege a Southeast Asia-based intermediary bought roughly $2.5 billion worth of Supermicro servers between 2024 and 2025, with at least $510 million of US-assembled, Nvidia-equipped hardware diverted to China in a six-week window in 2025, concealed using dummy servers and relabeled shipping documents. Liaw and Sun were arrested; Chang remains a fugitive. Liaw has pleaded not guilty, with trial scheduled for November.

Supermicro itself has not been charged in either the US or Taiwan proceedings. The company said it is cooperating with Taiwanese authorities and remains committed to protecting its technology and intellectual property. Its shares fell roughly 8 percent in US trading on news of the raid.

The case is one of the more concrete examples of enforcement catching up to the export-control gap between US chip restrictions and the resale and transshipment networks built to route around them, an issue that has shadowed Nvidia's supply chain since Washington tightened controls on advanced AI chips bound for China.

Sources: Bloomberg, The Next Web, CNBC

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By the Control Plane Editorial Team