Super Micro Co-Founder Charged With Smuggling, Departs Board

Images of Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun, left, and a broker, right, allegedly captured on surveillance cameras preparing dummy servers.Source: Department of Justice

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By Bob Van Voris

March 19, 2026 at 10:43 PM UTC

Updated on

March 20, 2026 at 8:53 PM UTC

The US charged a Super Micro Computer Inc. co-founder with illegally diverting billions of dollars in Nvidia Corp.-powered servers to China, initiating its highest-profile crackdown on alleged smuggling of restricted AI technology to the Asian country.

US prosecutors indicted Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw for sending US-assembled servers containing Nvidia’s cutting-edge chips to China in violation of US export controls. Liaw and two others associated with Super Micro allegedly sold the hardware to an unnamed Southeast Asian company and coordinated for its ultimate shipment to Chinese customers.