# Taiwan charges nine over alleged smuggling of ‘high-end’ AI servers to China

https://mins.news/en/item/32196

- The Guardian, 2026-08-25 19:02 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/25/taiwan-china-ai-smugglers

> Taiwanese prosecutors charged nine people, including one Nvidia employee and two Super Micro employees, over the alleged illegal export of high-end AI servers to mainland China. Prosecutors said the servers used banned B300 GPUs; 74 reached China, while an attempted transfer of 56 more failed.

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