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src=\"https:\/\/lowendbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/supermicro-logo-300x300.png\" alt=\"Supermicro Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lowendbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/supermicro-logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/lowendbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/supermicro-logo-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/lowendbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/supermicro-logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/lowendbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/supermicro-logo-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/lowendbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/supermicro-logo-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/lowendbox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/supermicro-logo-2048x2048.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">Supermicro is in trouble with the law again.\u00a0 Fresh on the heels of its previous criminal activity \u2013 where its founder was indicted for illegally shipping $2.5 billion worth of GPUs to China \u2013 comes news of another GPU-shipping scandal.<\/p>\n<p>According to press reports, Supermicro\u2019s offices in Taiwan were raided\u2026though the company is quick to deny this.\u00a0 SMCI states that its offices were not raided \u2013 just the stashes of six of its employees and three affiliated companies.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s sort of an arm\u2019s-length criminal enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the employees bought Supermicro servers equipped with the latest GPUs and sold them on to China.\u00a0 Seems like <strong>at best<\/strong> this means Supermicro has incredibly weak controls.\u00a0 At worst, they were happy to profit from these illegal shipments.<\/p>\n<p>Did the company think that these employees were spending hundreds of thousands (millions?) of dollars to run Minecraft servers?<\/p>\n<p>According to the Taiwanese prosecutor\u2019s office announcement (which admittedly I translated with AI since I don\u2019t speak Chinese):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"1112\" data-end=\"1399\">The defendants allegedly knew that high-end AI servers manufactured by Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Supermicro) and equipped with high-end NVIDIA chips are subject to strict U.S. export controls and are completely prohibited from being exported to China, Hong Kong, and Macau.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1401\" data-end=\"1667\">Despite this, the defendants allegedly conspired to purchase these servers in Taiwan and, in order to obtain enormous illegal profits by selling them into China, Hong Kong, and Macau, submitted false export documentation and false declarations regarding the exports.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1401\" data-end=\"1667\">Apparently SMCI didn\u2019t look at the export documentation very closely.<\/p>\n<p>The post Supermicro Just Can\u2019t Stop Breaking the Law appeared first on LowEndBox.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share Post Share reddit Supermicro is in trouble with the law again.\u00a0 Fresh on the heels of its previous criminal activity \u2013 where its founder was indicted for illegally shipping $2.5 billion worth of GPUs to China \u2013 comes news of another GPU-shipping scandal. 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