There you have it! The Department of Justice just charged three people tied to Super Micro Comput…
March 20, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 comments
China Threat Cybersecurity AI
There you have it! The Department of Justice just charged three people tied to Super Micro Computer — including its CO-FOUNDER — with smuggling $2.5 BILLION in Nvidia AI servers to China. Through Taiwan. Using hair dryers to peel off serial numbers.
Their names: Yih-Shyan Liaw (co-founder of Super Micro, joined the board in 2023), Ruei-Tsang Chang (sales manager in Super Micro's Taiwan office), and Ting-Wei Sun (contractor). Two arrested. One is still a fugitive.
Read that again. A co-founder of a major American server company was LITERALLY removing serial numbers from AI servers with a hair dryer, swapping them into unmarked boxes, routing them through Southeast Asia, and shipping them straight to China. While we have had export controls on advanced AI chips since 2022.
$2.5 BILLION worth of the most advanced AI hardware on the planet. Sent directly to our biggest adversary. By an insider at one of America's largest server manufacturers.
And here is the part that should make your blood boil. The Department of War just banned Anthropic — one of the most safety-focused AI companies in the world — calling them a "supply chain risk." Claude was the most widely deployed frontier AI model on classified networks. They called it a SUPPLY CHAIN RISK.
Meanwhile, Yih-Shyan Liaw — a co-founder of Super Micro — was running an actual supply chain operation to arm China with American AI technology. THAT is what a real supply chain risk looks like. Not an AI company that takes safety too seriously.
We are banning the wrong people. We are calling the wrong things risks. An AI model that refuses to help build autonomous weapons is a "supply chain risk." A co-founder physically smuggling billions in chips to China is apparently something we did not catch for years.
The export control regime is broken. Not because the rules are wrong — but because enforcement is focused on the WRONG targets. We are spending our energy blacklisting American AI companies while actual hardware is flowing to China through the back door.
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Their names: Yih-Shyan Liaw (co-founder of Super Micro, joined the board in 2023), Ruei-Tsang Chang (sales manager in Super Micro's Taiwan office), and Ting-Wei Sun (contractor). Two arrested. One is still a fugitive.
Read that again. A co-founder of a major American server company was LITERALLY removing serial numbers from AI servers with a hair dryer, swapping them into unmarked boxes, routing them through Southeast Asia, and shipping them straight to China. While we have had export controls on advanced AI chips since 2022.
$2.5 BILLION worth of the most advanced AI hardware on the planet. Sent directly to our biggest adversary. By an insider at one of America's largest server manufacturers.
And here is the part that should make your blood boil. The Department of War just banned Anthropic — one of the most safety-focused AI companies in the world — calling them a "supply chain risk." Claude was the most widely deployed frontier AI model on classified networks. They called it a SUPPLY CHAIN RISK.
Meanwhile, Yih-Shyan Liaw — a co-founder of Super Micro — was running an actual supply chain operation to arm China with American AI technology. THAT is what a real supply chain risk looks like. Not an AI company that takes safety too seriously.
We are banning the wrong people. We are calling the wrong things risks. An AI model that refuses to help build autonomous weapons is a "supply chain risk." A co-founder physically smuggling billions in chips to China is apparently something we did not catch for years.
The export control regime is broken. Not because the rules are wrong — but because enforcement is focused on the WRONG targets. We are spending our energy blacklisting American AI companies while actual hardware is flowing to China through the back door.
I am going LIVE on LinkedIn in a few weeks to talk about what is really happening with AI, national security, and the decisions being made in Washington. Subscribe to "In the Nic of Time" to get notified: https://lnkd.in/eAg8Z_uT
What are your thoughts?