Super Micro contractor pleads guilty in scheme to divert AI servers with Nvidia chips to China
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- ✓A contractor linked to Super Micro Computer pleaded guilty on Thursday to illegally exporting AI servers with Nvidia chips to China.
- ✓In March, US prosecutors charged Ting-Wei "Willy" Sun and two others with diverting $2.5 billion worth of technology.
- ✓The scheme used a Southeast Asian company to hide the buyers.
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- Economic Times
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- India Economy
In March, US prosecutors charged Ting-Wei "Willy" Sun and two others associated with Super Micro, including a co-founder, with conspiring to divert about $2.5 billion worth of US AI technology to China in violation of export laws.
A contractor linked to Super Micro Computer has pleaded guilty in a scheme to illegally export computer servers containing advanced Nvidia AI chips to China, according to a court filing on Friday.
In March, US prosecutors charged Ting-Wei "Willy" Sun and two others associated with Super Micro, including a co-founder, with conspiring to divert about $2.5 billion worth of US AI technology to China in violation of export laws.
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