Super Micro’s Super Smugglers

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Another day, another AI chip smuggling ring has been busted by the United States government. But this one is different: for the first time, executives from U.S. server manufacturer Super Micro have been charged with selling NVIDIA chips to Chinese buyers — a violation of U.S. export controls.Subscribe nowReporter Eliot Chen returns to the podcast with editor Andrew Peaple to discuss how the operation worked, and why smuggling chips to China is seemingly so hard to stop.Also, we’ll have a clip from our forthcoming Q&A with author Nicholas Niarchos on the impact that the push for clean energy is having on the countries that supply many of the key resources needed for products like batteries and electric vehicles.ShareInterested in full access to The Wire China content? Learn more about subscribing: https://www.thewirechina.com/subscriptions/TranscriptAndrew: Hello, and welcome back to The Wire China podcast, our weekly dive into the latest stories coming up on thewirechina.com. I’m Andrew Peaple, The Wire’s news editor. And this week, I’m joined by our Toronto based reporter Eliot Chen to talk about his new cover story on one of the hot topics of the moment, chip smuggling.And later on, we’ll also have a short clip from our new Q&A with Nicholas Niarchos. He’s a journalist who’s written a fascinating book on the realities behind the rare earth industry, drawing on his travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia and lots of other places. Both of those stories will be published this Sunday evening on our website. And so to get them delivered to your inbox, you can si…