NVIDIA Employee Detained by Taiwan Prosecutors, Suspected of Assisting Smuggling of AI Chips to China

TechFlow news, July 28, according to Bloomberg, Taiwan prosecutors detained a NVIDIA employee and searched their company office, a move that is part of the ongoing expansion of an investigation into suspected smuggling of AI accelerators to China. This is the first legal action taken by government authorities against a NVIDIA employee. Previously, Taiwan officials launched the first round of arrests in May, involving Super Micro Computer (Super Micro) employees, AI server distributors, and data center operators; those arrested were accused of forging documents to evade U.S. export controls and illegally export NVIDIA AI chips to China.