Former Super Micro Contractor Pleads Guilty to Diverting AI Technology to China
Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun, a former outside contractor for Super Micro Computer Inc., has pleaded guilty in a federal court in New York to charges of conspiring to send advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China in violation of U.S. export controls. Prosecutors allege that Sun was part of a scheme to divert Nvidia Corp-powered servers, which contain restricted B200, H100, and H200 graphics processing units, to Chinese customers. The scheme reportedly involved using an unnamed Southeast Asian company as a pass-through entity to conceal the true end customers in China. The indictment also claims that efforts were made to evade scrutiny from auditors by falsifying records and setting up “dummy” servers with altered serial numbers. Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw and Ruei-Tsang “Steven” Chang, a general manager in Super Micro’s Taiwan office, were also charged in connection with the alleged scheme. Liaw has pleaded not guilty, and Chang has not appeared in the case. Super Micro has stated th...
