Taiwan Indicts Nine — Including an Nvidia Manager — Over B300 Exports to China
Taiwan’s Keelung District Prosecutors Office indicted nine people — including an employee of Nvidia’s Taiwan unit and Super Micro staff — over the alleged illegal export of Nvidia B300 AI servers to China. Reuters: the scheme dressed 130 B300 systems as staying in Taiwan; later coverage cites 74 shipped via Japan and Indonesia and 56 seized. Allegations, not convictions. First known criminal indictment of an Nvidia employee in a Taiwan AI-chip smuggling case.
B300 is supposed to be the easy case: a named SKU, a named geography, a customs form. An Nvidia Taiwan partner manager in the dock is how the gray market becomes a corporate-compliance story ahead of August 26 earnings.
Keelung District Prosecutors announced indictments of nine people, including an employee of Nvidia’s Taiwan unit (surnamed Chang, a distribution partner manager) and two employees of Super Micro’s Taiwan unit, over illegal export of high-end AI servers to China. Reuters: the group made it appear that 130 B300 servers ordered from Super Micro would be installed in a rented Taiwan facility; customs stopped some shipments. Subsequent Bloomberg / Japan Times detail: 74 servers with B300 GPUs allegedly moved to China via Japan and Indonesia; 56 seized. Charges reported include breach of trust and document forgery. First known criminal indictment of an Nvidia employee in a Taiwan AI-chip smuggling case. Allegations, not convictions.
What prosecutors said
| Item | Keelung statement Aug 24 + Reuters / Bloomberg |
|---|---|
| Defendants | 9 people; Nvidia Taiwan employee + Super Micro Taiwan employees named among them |
| SKU | Nvidia B300 (restricted for China sale) |
| Cover story | 130 servers “for a Taiwan colo” |
| Throughput alleged | 74 exported; 56 seized (Bloomberg/JT; Reuters confirms customs stops) |
| Routing | Japan, Indonesia as pass-throughs |
| Status | Indictment — Nvidia the company is not the defendant in the Reuters writeup |
Date the announcement to Monday August 24 (Reuters Taipei dateline). Tuesday Japan Times / Yahoo pieces are coverage. Digitimes/Tom’s Hardware same-day scheme detail is secondary of the Keelung file.
Not August 10 $500B financing, not August 22 >15% server ASP (pricing), not same-day Groq 3 LPX / Vera (product). This is export-control enforcement.
Limits
- Allegations, not convictions.
- Nvidia the company is not the defendant in the Reuters writeup.
- How many of the 130 units actually landed in the PRC is disputed across wires (74 exported / 56 seized in Bloomberg/JT).
Sources
- Reuters: Taiwan indicts 9 over alleged illegal export of AI servers to China (August 24, 2026)
- Keelung District Prosecutors Office statement (August 24, 2026)
- Japan Times: Taiwan indicts Nvidia manager following chip-smuggling probe (August 25 coverage of Monday indictment)
- Tom’s Hardware: Nine indicted over illegal export of Nvidia B300 GPUs (August 24, 2026)