Supermicro’s co-founder was just arrested for allegedly smuggling $2.5 billion in GPUs to China

https://fortune.com/2026/03/19/supermicro-arrested-founder-smuggling-gpu-china/

19 Comments

  1. alternatingflan on

    This is why when any politician FIRST holds up a resume that features them as supposedly successful business people, I cringe.

  2. lol and intel just spent the last 5 years swapping out all their HP servers for super micros…

  3. addictivesign on

    Prison time unless the family pays Trump a lot of money to get the charges squashed.

    I could not spend my final years/decades in prison especially when I am used to the billionaire lifestyle.

    Can’t do the time?

    Don’t do the crime/stop being so greedy and selfish.

  4. PhantomMenaceWasOK on

    For those interested in how they did it: they had a shell company in Southeast Asia purchase the servers. Once the servers were delivered to Asia, they would be repackaged and re-shipped to China where the real buyers were. They went as far as to setup replica servers in Southeast Asia.

  5. We back in the dark ages. Where it’s illegal to share a GPU.

    It was illegal to share silk worms to make silk tapestry 

  6. cultoftheclave on

    how long until it’s found out that Jensen Huang was aware of it. And how much of NVDA income balance sheet was $2.9 Billions?

    That now can be safely subtracted from any forward earnings guidance they have given, that particular tap has been shut off.

    obviously all of this is the same, but much worse of an impact footprint, for SMCI itself