{"id":198111,"date":"2026-03-20T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/3-charged-with-conspiring-to-smuggle-artificial-intelligence-to-china-nbc-bay-area\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T19:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:10:26","slug":"3-charged-with-conspiring-to-smuggle-artificial-intelligence-to-china-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/3-charged-with-conspiring-to-smuggle-artificial-intelligence-to-china-nbc-bay-area\/","title":{"rendered":"3 charged with conspiring to smuggle artificial intelligence to China \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/national-international\/men-charged-conspiring-smuggle-artificial-intelligence-china\/4054901\/\">3 charged with conspiring to smuggle artificial intelligence to China \u2013 NBC Bay Area<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/national-international\/men-charged-conspiring-smuggle-artificial-intelligence-china\/4054901\/\">https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/national-international\/men-charged-conspiring-smuggle-artificial-intelligence-china\/4054901\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-20 13:13:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nbcbayarea.com\">www.nbcbayarea.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senior Vice President Yih-Shyan Liaw and two other individuals, Ting-Wei Sun and Ruei-Tsang Chang, affiliated with Super Micro Computer Inc., have been charged with conspiring to smuggle billions of dollars&#8217; worth of computer servers with advanced Nvidia chips to China.<\/li>\n<li>The defendants allegedly violated U.S. export control laws by directing massive quantities of high-performance servers to be diverted from the U.S. to China between 2024 and 2025.<\/li>\n<li>The scheme involved using fabricated documents and a pass-through company to disguise the operations and customers, according to FBI and U.S. Attorney claims.<\/li>\n<li>Such schemes pose significant threats to U.S. national security, according to U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, as Nvidia\u2019s processors are crucial for artificial intelligence infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>President Joe Biden and his predecessors have maintained restrictions on the sale of Nvidia&#8217;s AI chips to China, which is part of a broader competition between the U.S. and China in the AI technology space.<\/li>\n<li>Yih-Shyan Liaw was arrested, and Sun was taken into custody, while Chang remains a fugitive. 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