Taiwan Indicts Nvidia Manager in Illegal AI Chip Shipment Case to China

Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted a senior Nvidia manager and eight others in a case alleging the illegal shipment of advanced AI chips to China, marking the island’s first known crackdown on the black-market trade in these accelerators. Investigators say the group used a network of companies and intermediaries to route Nvidia-powered servers through places such as Japan and Indonesia and then onward to China, evading export restrictions. The case also involves employees and executives tied to server distributor and data-center firms, and prosecutors have said Nvidia itself is not accused of wrongdoing. The indictment underscores growing pressure on the supply chain for high-end AI hardware, which has become a focus of U.S. and Asian export-control enforcement.