A Taiwan court ordered two Supermicro employees and an Albatron executive detained incommunicado after prosecutors widened an investigation into alleged illegal exports of advanced AI servers to China, Hong Kong, and Macau.
The Keelung District Court ordered the detention of the two Supermicro employees, surnamed Lin and Wang, and Albatron general manager Lu, after finding sufficient evidence to detain the three on criminal charges and citing risks of flight and collusion.
Two other employees of Supermicro, a major U.S.-based IT solutions company with facilities in Taiwan, were released on bail.
Supermicro said in a July 1 open letter that four Taiwan employees had been questioned in the investigation and were placed on administrative leave pending the case’s conclusion….