DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - China, Supermicro
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Supermicro's Taiwan office raided in ongoing Nvidia smuggling probe, more employees detained by prosecutors – report
Follows announcement last month that company was working with authorities to stop illegal shipments of AI servers
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Supermicro says it is working with Taiwanese authorities to stop illegal shipments of its servers to China
Collaboration resulted in the seizure of 50 servers, company claims
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Supermicro cofounder resigns from board following China GPU smuggling charge, shares down 33%
US claims $2.5bn of servers shipped to China
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Three at Supermicro charged with smuggling Nvidia GPU servers into China, including company co-founder
One of the defendants is a co-founder of the server manufacturer
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US authorities tracking AI chip shipments to stop them being diverted to China – report
Trackers have been attached to shipments of Dell and Supermicro servers, sources claim
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Supermicro to move manufacturing out of China to quell the spy chip rumors it denies
Even if it's not true, the possibility has spooked server customers
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Supermicro: Independent review found no evidence of spy chips
Company reviewing legal options after bombshell Bloomberg allegations
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Supermicro to review hardware for malicious chips, "despite the lack of any proof"
While AWS CEO Andy Jassy joins Tim Cook in calling for the story to be retracted
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Apple CEO calls on Bloomberg to retract Supermicro spy chip story
But publication stands by its reporting
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Apple denies Chinese spy chip claims in a letter to US Congress
"We want to assure you that a recent report in Bloomberg Businessweek alleging the compromise of our servers is not true"
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Report: China compromised Supermicro's supply chain, smuggled chips into AWS, Apple data centers
The bombshell allegations are contested by the companies involved