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Taiwan Charges Nine, Including Nvidia Manager, Over AI Server Exports to China

Taiwan prosecutors charged nine people, including an Nvidia manager, for smuggling high-end AI servers to mainland China.

AI News Feed · 2026-08-26 05:09

The Keelung District prosecutors' office said the servers contained graphics processing units known as "B300," which are banned from sale to China. Seventy-four servers reached mainland China successfully: 50 were sent through Indonesia, 16 were delivered directly, and eight went via Japan and then Hong Kong before arriving on the mainland. An additional attempt involving 56 servers failed, and the servers remain in Taiwan, the office said.

According to a document from the Keelung prosecutors' office, any sale by Nvidia of high-end AI servers, the computer infrastructure that houses chips needed to power AI systems, requires a strict review process. Purchases of more than eight high-end servers also require company staff to conduct on-site checks of clients. Prosecutors are seeking the maximum five-year sentences for four of the nine defendants, including Chang, an Nvidia manager identified only by his surname, who was described as the "key figure" responsible for "authorizing the release of the B300 GPUs" in the case. The document said Chang "demonstrated a clearly poor attitude following the offense."

Some of the defendants set up a company in Japan, which helped transfer eight of the servers, and some allegedly created fake websites and falsified information to evade export restrictions, prosecutors said.

Nvidia spokesperson Patrick Rutherford said in a written statement: "We will work with the Taiwan authorities to help them resolve the allegations as quickly as possible." Super Micro said in a statement that the arrests of two former employees were due to its cooperation with Taiwanese authorities and that it would continue to work to "enhance its robust export compliance program to protect American innovation."

AI infrastructure, including advanced semiconductors mostly made in Taiwan, has become a key point of competition between the US and China. Washington began imposing restrictions on Nvidia's exports of advanced chips to China in 2022 and tightened them in subsequent years. In April 2025, the US required licenses for exports of Nvidia's H20 chips to China before allowing some sales to resume later that year.