The Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged three individuals with attempting to smuggle advanced AI chips to China in violation of U.S. export restrictions. Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw, a board member and senior vice president of business development at Super Micro, was arrested for allegedly conspiring to divert the company’s servers to China. Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun, a Taiwan citizen, was also arrested and remains a fugitive. The DOJ accuses Liaw and Chang of directing executives at a company based in Southeast Asia to place orders with Super Micro for servers with certain chips, which were then repackaged into unmarked boxes and shipped to China without company approval.