A 130-server order, and where it went
The Keelung District Prosecutors' Office said the group ordered 130 servers built on Nvidia's B300 GPU, part of the Blackwell Ultra line. Of those, 74 reached buyers in China, some shipped there directly and some routed through Indonesia, Japan and Hong Kong first. [1]
The remaining 56 servers were declared for export to a company in Japan. Taiwanese customs officers flagged irregularities in that declaration and stopped the shipment before it left. The 74 and 56 add up to the full order of 130, so the case as reported accounts for every unit. [1]
Nine defendants, and what their employers had to do with it
Eight defendants were charged over the export scheme, among them one employee of Nvidia's Taiwan unit and two employees of Super Micro's Taiwan unit. A ninth was charged separately, in a related case, over alleged siphoning of funds from a distributor company. Taipei Times did not name the other five defendants' employers. [1][2]
That is three named employees at two companies, not a corporate case. Prosecutors said the defendants were fully aware that Nvidia and Super Micro maintain what the prosecutors called rigorous internal control procedures on exports, which is a statement about the defendants' knowledge that they were working around those procedures, not a finding against either company. Neither Nvidia nor Super Micro had commented publicly by the time of the report. [1][2]
Charged with breach of trust and forgery, not an export control violation
The charges named in the report are breach of trust and document forgery. Taiwanese export control law was not cited as a charge in the coverage of this indictment. [1]
Breach of trust reaches an employee who acts against an employer's interest while holding a position of trust inside it, and forgery reaches the paperwork, such as false end-user documents claiming the servers headed to China would instead be installed in Taiwan. Both are ordinary parts of Taiwan's criminal code, the kind of charge available whether the goods in question are GPUs or anything else a company ships. Used this way, they let prosecutors act against the employees who moved the servers without first proving a standalone export control violation against the companies whose names were on the paperwork. [1]
Sources
- Nine indicted over AI server exports
Taipei Times · Aug 25, 2026
- Taiwan charges 9 over illegal AI server exports to China, including Nvidia and Super Micro staff
The Washington Post · Aug 24, 2026