{"id":225849,"date":"2026-03-20T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/three-people-have-been-charged-with-illegally-exporting-nvidia-gpus-to-china\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T18:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:25:11","slug":"three-people-have-been-charged-with-illegally-exporting-nvidia-gpus-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/three-people-have-been-charged-with-illegally-exporting-nvidia-gpus-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Three people have been charged with illegally exporting NVIDIA GPUs to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/three-people-have-been-charged-with-illegally-exporting-nvidia-gpus-to-china-184928430.html\">Three people have been charged with illegally exporting NVIDIA GPUs to China<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/three-people-have-been-charged-with-illegally-exporting-nvidia-gpus-to-china-184928430.html\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/three-people-have-been-charged-with-illegally-exporting-nvidia-gpus-to-china-184928430.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-20 14:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The US Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Southern District of New York has charged three people with illegally exporting NVIDIA GPUs to China in violation of the Export Control Reform Act. NVIDIA&#8217;s chips have become a critical component in the rush to train and run increasingly complex artificial intelligence models, one the US has sought to manipulate with export controls and profit-sharing schemes with NVIDIA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The three people, Yih-Shyan &#8220;Wally&#8221; Liaw, Ruei-Tsang &#8220;Steven&#8221; Chang and Ting-Wei &#8220;Willy&#8221; Sun, two employees and one contractor working for US IT company Super Micro Computer, allegedly circumvented export control laws via a multi-step scheme that involved creating fake orders for servers with NVIDIA chips from Southeast Asian companies, that were then secretly sent to China. The plan involved paying a logistics company to repackage the servers in Taiwan, staging dummy servers to be inspected by Super Micro Computer&#8217;s compliance team and falsifying records so Liaw, Chang and Sun&#8217;s employer was unaware where the servers were actually being sent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The DOJ claims Liaw, Chang and Sun facilitated the illegal purchase of $2.5 billion worth of servers between 2024 and 2025 in direct violation of US export laws. Super Micro Computer is not named as a defendant in the US Attorney&#8217;s indictment, but the company&#8217;s stock price has been impacted by the scheme, CNBC writes. In a statement released on Thursday, Super Micro Computer announced that it&#8217;s distancing itself from Liaw, Chang and Sun. &#8220;The individuals charged are Yih-Shyan &#8220;Wally&#8221; Liaw, Senior Vice President of Business Development and a member of the Company&#8217;s Board of Directors; Ruei-Tsang &#8220;Steven&#8221; Chang, a sales manager in Taiwan; and Ting-Wei &#8220;Willy&#8221; Sun, a contractor,&#8221; the company writes. &#8220;Supermicro has placed the two employees on administrative leave and terminated its relationship with the contractor, effective immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">This isn&#8217;t the first time people have attempted to illegally smuggle NVIDIA&#8217;s products out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/three-people-have-been-charged-with-illegally-exporting-nvidia-gpus-to-china-184928430.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three people have been charged with illegally exporting NVIDIA GPUs to China https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/three-people-have-been-charged-with-illegally-exporting-nvidia-gpus-to-china-184928430.html Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/UBdrFAhtXG_ueyvd34mnZQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD04MDA-\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/2026-03\/71c3265c-a313-46cb-ba01-7c5b15b40928","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-225849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225851,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225849\/revisions\/225851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}