{"id":197564,"date":"2026-03-20T04:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/three-charged-in-the-us-with-smuggling-ai-chips-into-china-science-and-technology-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T04:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:10:12","slug":"three-charged-in-the-us-with-smuggling-ai-chips-into-china-science-and-technology-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/three-charged-in-the-us-with-smuggling-ai-chips-into-china-science-and-technology-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Three charged in the US with smuggling AI chips into China | Science and Technology News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/20\/three-charged-in-the-us-with-smuggling-ai-chips-into-china\">Three charged in the US with smuggling AI chips into China | Science and Technology News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/20\/three-charged-in-the-us-with-smuggling-ai-chips-into-china\">https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/20\/three-charged-in-the-us-with-smuggling-ai-chips-into-china<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-20 04:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.aljazeera.com\">www.aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Three individuals connected to Super Micro Computer, including cofounder Yih-Shyan Liaw, have been charged by the US Department of Justice for allegedly smuggling over $2.5 billion worth of US AI technology to China in violation of export laws.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The Justice Department did not name Super Micro directly but indicated that it involved a &#8220;US manufacturer,&#8221; who later confirmed it as themselves. The company declared that it was not formally named a defendant but had fully cooperated with investigators.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The defendants, including Ruei-Tsang Chang and Ting-Wei Sun, used complex measures to disguise the shipments, including smuggling AI chips through Taiwan, disguising the servers, and transferring them into unmarked boxes to China.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The US has imposed export restrictions on advanced AI chips to China since 2022, and such actions have been deemed a direct threat to US national security by US officials.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Liaw and Sun were arrested while Chang remains at large. Liaw was released on bail; Sun&#8217;s case is pending a bail hearing. Super Micro responded by placing Liaw and Chang on leave and terminating its relationship with Sun.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The company&#8217;s shares dropped 8 percent following the indictment. While the specific AI chips involved were not disclosed, the market is heavily dominated by companies like Nvidia, which emphasize strict compliance with export laws.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three charged in the US with smuggling AI chips into China | Science and Technology&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ap_69bceef205d79-1773989618.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197566,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197564\/revisions\/197566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}