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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Larry Neumeister and Michael Liedtke

3 men are charged with conspiring to smuggle US artificial intelligence to China

AI Server Smuggling China - (Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A senior vice president of Super Micro Computer Inc. and two others affiliated with the company were charged Thursday with conspiring to smuggle billions of dollars of computer servers containing advanced Nvidia chips to China.

The men violated U.S. export controls laws by scheming to divert massive quantities of the high-performance servers assembled in the United States to China between 2024 and 2025, according to the indictment in Manhattan federal court.

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