Hacker News Reader

Comment by oldnetguy | Hacker News Reader

I would think HP or Dell could buy this but given what they did it would require to much. The company should die and the employees that contributed to this should be in jail..

View on HN

What justification is there for employee jail time?

> Supermicro Co-Founder Indicted in $2.5 Billion Nvidia GPU Smuggling Scheme

> 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.

Microchip salesman indicted for selling microchips.

What a weird country.

It's no weirder than drug dealer being indicated for selling a controlled substance.

Its closer to "food seller, indicted for selling otherwise legal food to people the government randomly decided are unable to eat"

It's not at all a similar analogy, and you know it. China is a threat. I assume you personally don't care about it, but it is in our interests that it does not dominate the AI industry.

China is a threat, if you live in Taiwan. They lack the ability to project force any further than that. You pin down IR guys on this issue they eventually relent and suggest actually the biggest issue with China is that their claimed zone of control includes a lot of ocean trade routes. But honestly, Xi has been better for international trade than any US admin in the last 15 years, I don't see them doing anything but protecting it. They are like 100 times less threatening than the USA, and that was before president tantrum, who has acted (quite recently) to destabilize global trade.

Right, that is how embargo's and other similar restrictions work all over the world.

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.

White collar criminals almost exclusively break laws in their own line of business... because that's what they do.

contributed to this

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

Some extreme double standards?

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...

Your assertion is that we should stop enforcing all laws?

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.

No, laws should be imposed top to bottom. If those at the top who are making the laws can do absolutely anything with no repercussions while everyone else is punished that severely decreases the trust anyone has in the system and weakens it long-term.

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?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com