supermicro caught selling NV chips to china, co-founder boardmember arrested

some idiot in china made a video boasting about getting export banned nv chips/systems, video included supermicro boxes in background giving fbi a "clue". overinflated china ai stocks market in freefall until they can issue statements that supermicro sourcing wont affect them. supermicro stock down 33%

                    Supermicro employees accused of smuggling $2.5 billion worth of Nvidia hardware to China — perps used a hairdryer to move serial numbers between real hardware and thousands of dummy servers
                

Trio of suspects could be in line for decades behind bars, fines, and asset forfeiture.

www.tomshardware.com

        https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/tech-stocks-today-supermicro-stock-dives-after-us-charges-employees-with-smuggling-nvidia-chips-to-china-144220474.html
    

                    Super Micro co-founder indicted on Nvidia smuggling charges leaves board
                

Super Micro said Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw, a co-founder, has resigned from the server maker's board after he was indicted in the U.S.

www.cnbc.com

edit: found some video of initial moron.

they(SM) went to the trouble of encrypted communications and the schmuck at the receiving undid the effort.