Taiwanese prosecutors say a smuggling ring moved high-end Nvidia and Supermicro AI servers into China, where they fetch double the legal price — bad news for export controls and for the Taiwanese firms now under investigation.

• Top-tier B300 AI servers sell for about NT$15 million in Taiwan but go for over NT$30 million on China's black market, since China cannot buy them legally.
• The 74 servers in this case would have brought illegal profit of more than NT$1 billion if all were sold.
• The ring was well organized: it got a company onto Nvidia's approved-buyer list, set up a transfer hub in Japan, and pulled in senior staff from Nvidia's and Supermicro's Taiwan arms.
• The key suspect, the real boss of one of the companies involved, has fled and is still at large.
• The buyers were two Chinese IT firms said to have military ties, raising the worry that the chips end up in weapons work rather than ordinary business use.

Outlook: Prosecutors in Keelung are still chasing the fugitive ringleader and tracing where the servers ended up, and more arrests among company insiders are likely.