{"id":571446,"date":"2026-03-20T06:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T06:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/super-micro-co-founder-arrested-over-alleged-2-5b-ai-chip-smuggling-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T06:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T06:54:16","slug":"super-micro-co-founder-arrested-over-alleged-2-5b-ai-chip-smuggling-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/super-micro-co-founder-arrested-over-alleged-2-5b-ai-chip-smuggling-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Micro co-founder arrested over alleged $2.5B AI chip smuggling scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"

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US authorities say they have charged and arrested Supermicro co-founder Yih-Shyan \u201cWally\u201d Liaw for allegedly funnelling $2.5 billion in AI servers to China through shell companies.<\/p>\n

US authorities say the co-founder of Super Micro Computer, Inc. has been charged and arrested over an alleged multi-billion dollar scheme to smuggle advanced artificial intelligence chips from the US to China.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department said<\/a> in a statement on Thursday that it had unsealed an indictment charging Yih-Shyan \u201cWally\u201d Liaw, as well as Super Micro sales executives Ruei-Tsang \u201cSteven\u201d Chang, and Ting-Wei \u201cWilly\u201d Sun over the alleged conspiracy.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said the trio violated US export control laws by conspiring \u201cto sell billions of dollars\u2019 worth of servers integrating sensitive, controlled graphics processing units to buyers in China.\u201d<\/p>\n

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US authorities say they have charged and arrested Supermicro co-founder Yih-Shyan \u201cWally\u201d Liaw for allegedly funnelling $2.5 billion in AI servers to China through shell companies. US authorities say the co-founder of Super Micro Computer, Inc. has been charged and arrested over an alleged multi-billion dollar scheme to smuggle advanced artificial intelligence chips from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":571447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-571446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}