Supermicro launches probe after co-founder’s arrest on charges of $2.5 billion in chip smuggling

Supermicro launches probe after co-founder’s arrest on charges of $2.5 billion in chip smuggling

Two Supermicro board members are spearheading an internal investigation following a federal indictment alleging one of the company’s cofounders orchestrated the routing of $2.5 billion in servers packed with Nvidia’s highly prized GPUs to China, in violation of export controls.  The independent investigation comes two years after an independent director on the board previously investigated Supermicro and found “no evidence of fraud or misconduct…