Not surprising - in fact, expected. The CCP are total experts at trans-shipping switcheroos and smuggling. It is coming out that China's DeepSeek indeed used servers with Nvidia banned chips besides the stolen tech they used to train their AI. My understanding is that those servers are in Northern China where it is cooler and less noticeable in Mongolia. It was done through SmartMicro whose cofounder Wally Liaw is a long time friend with Jensen Huang. Liaw was arrested on March 19 by federal agents in California and charged with conspiring to smuggle $2.5 billion worth of Nvidia AI chips to China in violation of US export control laws.
The alleged scheme involved falsifying documents, bribing auditors, and repacking servers in unmarked boxes to conceal their true destination, with prosecutors noting Liaw even texted to "speed these up before May 13" to beat new export restrictions announced by the Trump Administration. This was not Liaw's first rodeo in illegal operations. This latest round is the second major export-control violation for Supermicro, following a 2006 case where the company pleaded guilty to illegally exporting computer equipment to Iran.
I hope this sends a shot across the bow to Jensen Huang to tow the line or he will be next to fall. He is chomping at the bit to give China our most advanced AI tech and he is too close to the CCP. I don't believe for one minute that he is that naive not to know what is going on.
So this trans-shipping switching of components to rig election machines is the tip of a very big iceberg of cyber threats against the US by the CCP.
Not surprising - in fact, expected. The CCP are total experts at trans-shipping switcheroos and smuggling. It is coming out that China's DeepSeek indeed used servers with Nvidia banned chips besides the stolen tech they used to train their AI. My understanding is that those servers are in Northern China where it is cooler and less noticeable in Mongolia. It was done through SmartMicro whose cofounder Wally Liaw is a long time friend with Jensen Huang. Liaw was arrested on March 19 by federal agents in California and charged with conspiring to smuggle $2.5 billion worth of Nvidia AI chips to China in violation of US export control laws.
The alleged scheme involved falsifying documents, bribing auditors, and repacking servers in unmarked boxes to conceal their true destination, with prosecutors noting Liaw even texted to "speed these up before May 13" to beat new export restrictions announced by the Trump Administration. This was not Liaw's first rodeo in illegal operations. This latest round is the second major export-control violation for Supermicro, following a 2006 case where the company pleaded guilty to illegally exporting computer equipment to Iran.
I hope this sends a shot across the bow to Jensen Huang to tow the line or he will be next to fall. He is chomping at the bit to give China our most advanced AI tech and he is too close to the CCP. I don't believe for one minute that he is that naive not to know what is going on.
So this trans-shipping switching of components to rig election machines is the tip of a very big iceberg of cyber threats against the US by the CCP.