Taiwan raids Super Micro in widening China chip smuggling probe

Taiwan government agencies raided the offices of Super Micro Computer and several of its local affiliates, deepening an investigation into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia chips into China using the company’s servers. Local investigators raided the residences of six people and the sites of three affiliated companies on Monday as part of an ongoing probe into the allegedly illegal export of Super Micro’s servers, Taiwan’s Keelung District Prosecutors Office said in a statement. While the agency did not provide the names of those searched, Super Micro’s Taiwan office was among them, a person familiar with the situation said, asking not…