# Super Micro Computer Inc. servers containing advanced Nvidia Corp. chips were smuggled to China.

*semiconductor · news · 2026-05-08 · Bloomberg*

## Key points

- OBON Corp., central to Thailand's AI strategy, is implicated in illegal AI chip exports to China.
- US prosecutors identified Super Micro's co-founder as orchestrating a smuggling operation with OBON Corp.
- Alibaba Group was among multiple Chinese end customers for the smuggled Nvidia-equipped servers.
- The scheme involved circumventing US trade restrictions using a network of third-party brokers.

**Companies:** Nvidia Corp., Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Super Micro Computer Inc., OBON Corp.
**Countries:** Thailand, China, United States

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