Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Three Super Micro employees have been charged with conspiring to unlawfully divert cutting-edge U.S. artificial intelligence technology to China. An indictment unsealed on Thursday says Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, Ruei-Tsang “Steven” Chang, and Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun were involved in a smuggling plot that leveraged a middleman Southeast Asian company to fake paperwork and repackage servers that were powered by cutting-edge Nvidia chips. The underhanded operation is thought to have netted roughly $2.5b in sales since 2024. Super Micro isn’t named in the indictment, but Liaw is a co-founder of the server firm, with nearly half a billion dollars worth of shares under his belt (the shares just dropped 12% in value on this news). Moreover, Chang is a sales manager for Super Micro in Taiwan.…