Five months after the arrest of Supermicro co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw and two other co-conspirators for the alleged smuggling of Nvidia hardware into China, the company announced that it has completed its independent investigation and released its findings to the public, resulting in the termination of several employees. Supermicro said that the investigation, which was handled by an external law firm and conducted by an “independent forensic accounting consultant,” finds that neither the company nor its current senior executives were part of the alleged AI chip smuggling. It also said that it’s adopting all the recommendations to enhance its export compliance programs, although it did not directly admit that it was lacking in that department.
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