Three charged with sneaking Nvidia AI chips from US into China

Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw, 71, of Silicon Valley conspired with 53-year-old Ruei-Tsang "Steven" Chang and 44-year-old Ting-Wei "Willy" Sun of Taiwan to smuggle computer servers containing high-performance Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) to China, prosecutors contend. "The defendants participated in a systematic scheme to divert massive quantities of US artificial intelligence technology to customers in China," US attorney Jay Clayton said in a statement. "They did so through a tangled web of lies...