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Super Micro 'Fixer' Ting-Wei Sun Pleads Guilty in NY to $2.5B Nvidia AI Server Smuggling Scheme

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Summary

Ting-Wei 'Willy' Sun, the outside contractor US prosecutors dubbed a 'fixer,' pleaded guilty in federal court in New York to his role in a scheme to smuggle roughly $2.5B of Nvidia-powered AI servers to China via an unnamed Southeast Asian company. He was charged alongside Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan 'Wally' Liaw and Taiwan GM Ruei-Tsang 'Steven' Chang; Chang remains a fugitive, per DOJ.