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• @peterwildeford Peter Wildeford on x

  The high-profile Super Micro smuggling case is a huge breach of trust and highly damaging to US national security. I'm happy to see @SenTomCotton taking this seriously and I'm grateful for his leadership on the Chip Security Act, which would go a long way to better enforcement.

• @sentomcotton Tom Cotton on x

  The DOJ indictment of Super Micro Computer's co-founder and other employees for smuggling Nvidia chips raises serious concerns about our export control enforcement. I've asked @CommerceGov to begin implementing some provisions from my Chip Security Act to prevent more [image]

• @edludlow Ed Ludlow on x

  Nvidia on Super Micro charges: “Strict compliance is a top priority for Nvidia,” the Santa Clara, California-based chip designer said in a statement. “We continue to work closely with our customers and the government on compliance programs as export regulations have expanded.”

• @jordanschneider Jordan Schneider on x

  are we gunna get a @DavidSacks tweet about Super Micro smuggling billions of chips to China? [image]

• @turbopossum @turbopossum on x

  Guys that's not a hair dryer, it's a heat gun, and it's literally the lifeblood of the shady electronics industry that makes middle class life possible.

• @bonegpt Bone on x

  The video that got the Supermicro cofounder arrested

• @trungtphan Trung Phan on x

  wow, just found a rare interview of a Super Micro employee — recently implictaed in the $2.5B Nvidia GPU smuggling scheme — talking about a legal dispute with a co-founder for one of his AI startups a few years ago [video]

• @mrbcyber Michael Ron Bowling on x

  The Super Micro scandal shows just how massive China's espionage operations are in America Fake servers were built and shown to auditors. Very wealthy people engaged in high risk criminal activity. We really face an unprecedented espionage threat in the US. [image]

• @beffjezos @beffjezos on x

  Jensen: “They expect one of us in the wreckage, brother.” [image]

• @raz0rfist @raz0rfist on x

  Today, in ‘China are Absolutely Not Our Enemy’ News...

• @dojnatsec @dojnatsec on x

  Three Charged with Conspiring to Unlawfully Divert Cutting Edge U.S. Artificial Intelligence Technology to China “The indictment unsealed today details alleged efforts to evade U.S. export laws through false documents, staged dummy servers to mislead inspectors, and convoluted [i…

• @ns123abc Nik on x

  🚨BREAKING: SUPER MICRO CO-FOUNDER ARRESTED FOR SMUGGLING $2.5B IN NVIDIA GPUs TO CHINA >SMCI co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw arrested today >personally holds $464 MILLION in SMCI stock >charged with smuggling BILLIONS in Nvidia servers to china >used a southeast asian shell [im…

• @bznotes Bilal Zuberi on x

  This is the real war. But we kept getting dragged into other's conflicts where we lose our men and women in uniform.

• @jason @jason on x

  What?!? 🤦

• @patrickmoorhead Patrick Moorhead on x

  From $SMCI. Not a good look. “The individuals charged are Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, Senior Vice President of Business Development and a member of the Company's Board of Directors; Ruei-Tsang “Steven” Chang, a sales manager in Taiwan; and Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun, a contractor.

• @fmrrepmattgaetz @fmrrepmattgaetz on x

  Great work by DOJ!

• @beffjezos @beffjezos on x

  POV: you choose your weapon of choice for a crime that will land you 30 years in federal prison [image]

• @msmelchen Melissa Chen on x

  The latest bust in America's endless whack-a-mole game against Chinese tech theft: Three insiders at Super Micro Computer (SMCI) - a key supplier of high-end AI servers loaded with restricted Nvidia chips - got nailed for scheming to illegally ship cutting-edge US AI tech

• @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x

  I'm sorry but this super micro thing is awful but parts of it are genuinely hilarious They literally used a hair dryer to move serial numbers from real servers to dummy servers to throw in a warehouse and got caught on camera [image]

• @zephyr_z9 @zephyr_z9 on x

  Bruh, a co-founder of SMCI, got charged SCMI overlooking/allowing Nvidia server exports to China has been well known

• r/ProfessorFinance r on reddit

  Super Micro shares tank 25% after employees charged with smuggling Nvidia chips to China

• r/StockMarket r on reddit

  Super Micro shares tank 25% after employees charged with smuggling Nvidia chips to China

• r/technology r on reddit

  US charges 3 tied to Super Micro Computer with helping smuggle billions of dollars of AI chips to China

• r/news r on reddit

  US charges 3 tied to Super Micro Computer with helping smuggle billions of dollars of AI chips to China