Super Micro Computer Investors Look for Exits
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He is clearly unwilling to change, so, Super Micro is just going to die a painful death.
If they disappear, something of value will be lost, because during the last decade, approximately since the launch of the Intel Skylake Server CPUs, when there was a big jump in price for server hardware, every year there are fewer and fewer options available for the purchasers of server hardware who are individuals or small businesses, who do not want to pay 5-digit prices for a server.
Unlike a decade ago, nowadays the retail prices for most server components have become ridiculously higher in comparison with the heavily discounted prices paid by big companies, so many shops that were selling server hardware to low-volume customers have closed, because those can no longer afford the new prices.
The disappearance of SuperMicro will make even harder to find server hardware at retail.
> On Thursday, the Justice Department announced it had indicted 71-year-old co-founder Wally Liaw, along with a Supermicro sales manager in Taiwan, Ruei-Tsang "Steven" Chang, and a contractor Ting-Wei "Willy" Sun for conspiring to smuggle the GPUs starting in 2024.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/co-founder-of-us-server-maker-ind...
> Prosecutors allege that Mr Liaw used brokers to order servers containing advanced Nvidia chips on behalf of a “pass-through” entity in South-East Asia; many were assembled in America and shipped to that entity, then repackaged in unmarked boxes and sent on to China. To fool customs inspectors, those involved allegedly created thousands of “dummy” servers to sit in the warehouses where the buyer claimed to store the equipment.
https://www.economist.com/business/2026/03/26/a-new-case-of-...
The good news jail time for a founder is sounding quite possible.
What a weird country.
Kind of like "Gun seller, indicted for selling otherwise legal guns to people the government randomly decide are unable to buy guns"
Your particular point of view decides if it's random or not.
If you're helping break federal law and you know about it, you should go to jail.
That's what I presume the "contributed to this" meant, this=this crime
Unless you think there is some reason why those running that same federal government are free to commit any type of federal crimes they wish with no repercussions...
Or only this specific crime? Why this crime, and not others? If it's because you don't "like" this law, then aren't you Mr Double Standards, not I? Aren't I saying "it's a law, enforce it" and aren't you saying "We need a separate standard for laws I personally don't like"?
Are you traveling around the country, uttering this at all court actions? Or do you just lambast random people on the internet, for random laws?
I'm not interested in your country's weird left/right, team player, inane politics. Injecting politics into every conversation is literally what's wrong with your country.
Also an extreme misallocation of resources, maybe you should not prioritize the people who are.
> then aren't you Mr Double Standards, not I? Aren't I saying "it's a law, enforce it" and aren't you saying
Nope, rather just not impose it arbitrarily and only punish the people who haven't paid off the right set of politicians.
> Injecting politics into every conversation
This is an inherently political topic, though?
> ...
> Shares of Super Micro were up as much as 5.4% on Tuesday.
Huh?
The people with billions of dollars in the market know what is happening with their portfolio companies before it is announced, they're not waiting around for newspaper to say something. Newspapers are for us nobodies at home. If you've got billions to play with, you can get your own high-quality primary sources of information that are better and faster.