U.S. prosecutors charge three people tied to Super Micro with diverting $2.5 billion of AI servers to China

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York unsealed an indictment charging Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan 'Wally' Liaw, Taiwan sales manager Ruei-Tsang 'Steven' Chang and contractor Ting-Wei 'Willy' Sun. Prosecutors allege about $2.5 billion of U.S.-assembled servers bought in 2024 and 2025 were routed to China, with dummy servers used to pass audits. The company itself is not named as a defendant.

• Charges: conspiracy to violate export controls, conspiracy to smuggle goods and conspiracy to defraud the U.S.
• Alleged scale: about $2.5 billion of server purchases in 2024 and 2025, including about $510 million diverted to China between late April and mid-May 2025
• Liaw is described as co-founder, board member and senior vice president of business development
• Super Micro is not named as a defendant
• Chang remains at large according to the Justice Department