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Taiwan raids 12 locations in its first formal crackdown on Nvidia AI chip smuggling — hunts three fugitives for document forgery, fraudulent declarations in Super Micro smuggling case

… When chip smuggling was just a U.S. DOJ priority, enforcement was limited by geography. Now that key manufacturing and transit hubs like Taiwan and Singapore are actively hunting down middlemen using local criminal fraud laws, the supply chain is fracturing. …

May 21, 2026 · Zak Killian
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Taiwan authorities arrest three on suspicion of smuggling Nvidia chips to China — operation allegedly used Japan as transshipment point before forwarding banned Supermicro servers to Hong Kong

… This is the first arrest Taiwan has made in connection with the U.S. crackdown on AI chip smuggling, and the first to reveal Japan as a transshipment point for these illicit goods. Many smuggling operations have been using Southeast Asian nations to route Nvidia chips to China. …

May 27, 2026 · Jowi Morales
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After $2.5 billion Supermicro smuggling bust, Nvidia CEO urges company to fix export control compliance — Taiwan also begins to crack down on AI GPU chip smuggling to China

… We hope that they will enhance and improve their regulation compliance and prevent that from happening in the future," Huang said in an address to the media. Huang's comments came days after Taiwan launched its first formal crackdown on illicit AI hardware exports. …

May 24, 2026 · Luke James
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Taiwan weighs criminal ban on AI chip exports to all of China — stricter measures beyond blacklisted firms would make smuggling servers a crime

Taiwan is considering far stricter export controls that would restrict AI chip sales to every customer in China, not only blacklisted firms such as Huawei, a shift that would let Taipei prosecute smuggling as a criminal offense for the first time, according to a report from Bloomberg , citing peopl… …

Jun 9, 2026 · Luke James
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