The Case of Super Micro’s Missing Nvidia’s

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Good evening. First it was alleged smugglers in California sending proscribed Nvidia AI chips to China by way of Singapore and Malaysia. Then Texas and Virginia-based executives were accused of shipping Nvidia’s to China via North Carolina, New York, New Jersey and Hong Kong. After that, prosecutors in Texas and Georgia alleged that they too had uncovered smuggling rings that shipped Nvidia chips to China through Southeast Asia. But it is the latest China chips-smuggling case that is the biggest, allegedly involving illicit shipments of Nvidia’s worth $2.5 billion by a senior executive at California-based server maker Super Micro. In this week’s cover story Eliot Chen, who wrote about the North Carolina operation for The Wire China last month, investigates the Super Micro scandal and its implications for the company, Nvidia and America and China’s chip industries.Our cover story is also the subject of this week’s Wire China podcast.Other items in this week’s issue: The growing divide between the Trump administration and Congress over China policy; The Big Picture on Chinese Earth observation satellites; our conversation with journalist and author Nicolas Niarchos; and the cybersecurity implications of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview.Want this emailed directly to your inbox? Sign up to receive our free newsletter.Subscribe nowIllustration by Luis GrañenaWhere Have All the Nvidia’s Gone, Gone to China Every One…How does a senior computer industry executive allegedly fool his own company into shipping Nvidia chips to China that aren’t supposed to be shipped to China? First, …