Super Micro Co-Founder Charged In $2.5B NVIDIA AI Chip Smuggling Scheme To China

The unsealing of a federal indictment has exposed a multi-billion dollar shadow pipeline designed to funnel restricted NVIDIA AI chips into China. At the center of the controversy is Wally Liaw Yih-Shyan, the 71-year-old co-founder and Senior Vice President of Super Micro Computer, who now faces serious criminal charges for allegedly orchestrating a "tangled web of lies, obfuscation, and concealment" to bypass U.S. national security controls.

🚨BREAKING: SUPER MICRO CO-FOUNDER ARRESTED FOR SMUGGLING $2.5B IN NVIDIA GPUs TO CHINA

>SMCI co-founder Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw arrested today
>personally holds $464 MILLION in SMCI stock
>charged with smuggling BILLIONS in Nvidia servers to china
>used a southeast asian shell… https://t.co/SfIFc0SPed pic.twitter.com/93QE72ddph

— NIK (@ns123abc) March 20, 2026

Liaw, a U.S. citizen and long-standing figure in the Silicon Valley tech scene, is accused of conspiring with Steven Chang Ruei-Tsang, a sales manager in Taiwan, and ...