By Wen-Yee Lee <\/p>\n
TAIPEI, July 2 (Reuters) – Super Micro said on Wednesday that two workers at its Taiwan unit had been detained pending a court hearing and two others released on bail after being \u200cquestioned by Taiwanese prosecutors investigating the alleged illegal export of advanced AI servers containing Nvidia chips. <\/p>\n
The servers \u200care made by Super Micro and contain Nvidia chips, which are subject to U.S. export controls prohibiting export to China. <\/p>\n
The four workers were among \u200bsix people questioned earlier this week when Taiwan’s Keelung District Prosecutors’ Office said it had launched a second round of searches in the probe. <\/p>\n
The six people were questioned over alleged document forgery and breach of trust, it said, adding searches were conducted at 12 locations, including the homes of six suspects and the offices of three companies. <\/p>\n
The companies searched were Super Micro \u200cTaiwan, Albatron Technology, Super Micro’s distributor in \u2060Taiwan, and Chief Telecom, a data centre operator. <\/p>\n
In a letter to customers issued in the United States on Wednesday, Super Micro Chief Revenue Officer Matthew Thauberger said the four employees \u2060had been questioned on June 29 in connection with what he described as a Taiwanese investigation regarding the company’s sale of products to a technology company in Taiwan. <\/p>\n
“Two of the four employees have been detained pending a hearing, and the other two have \u200bbeen \u200breleased on bail,” Thauberger wrote in the letter. <\/p>\n
“Super Micro is not \u200ba target of this investigation,” he said, adding \u200cthat the company had been working with Taiwanese authorities for several months. <\/p>\n
Thauberger said the company had provided Taiwan authorities access to the employees’ desks and electronic devices and had immediately placed all four employees on administrative leave, pending the outcome of the investigation. <\/p>\n
In May, Taiwanese prosecutors launched the first round of the investigation, detaining three people suspected of illegally exporting Super Micro’s high-end AI servers, equipped with the Nvidia chips. Those three remain in detention. <\/p>\n
In a statement issued in \u200cMay, Super Micro said it had been cooperating with Taiwan authorities \u200bin an investigation into the alleged diversion of its AI servers \u200bto the restricted Chinese market. The cooperation had led \u200bto the seizure of 50 servers, the company said, adding that they had been deceptively \u200cacquired after being sold to an authorised reseller. <\/p>\n
In \u200bMarch, the U.S. Justice Department charged \u200bthree people associated with Super Micro, including one of its co-founders, with helping smuggle at least $2.5 billion worth of U.S. AI technology to China in violation of U.S. export laws. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Wen-Yee Lee TAIPEI, July 2 (Reuters) – Super Micro said on Wednesday that two workers at its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,48772,29542,409,3452,390],"class_list":["post-92998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-keelung-district-prosecutors39-office","tag-nvidia-chips","tag-servers","tag-super-micro","tag-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}