I'm I'm going to be. I'm going to be able to be. The Last week, the U.S. charged Yishayan Wallyla, the co-fam, sure that's exactly how he pronounces his name,

the co-founder of Serv Maker Super Micro with illegally routing servers containing

NVIDIA's advanced AI chips to China.

The US restricts chip exports to the country.

They restrict that to give an American AI labs the edge.

Leo, who resigned from the California, they restrict that to give an American AI labs the edge.

Leo, who resigned from the California SuperBased Super Micro Board last week,

was named as a defendant alongside a general manager and a contractor,

though Super Micro wasn't charged in the case.

The three defendants allegedly orchestrated purchases of the servers by a company in Southeast Asia,

which then repackaged them for shipment to China.

Prosecutors say Super Micro made $2.5 billion in server sales to this company since 2024. Last spring alone,

$510 million worth of those servers were restricted chips that were sent to China. The scheme allegedly involved tricking super micro auditors and the U.S. government inspector into believing the company

had bought the hardware for itself. Prosecutors said that at one point, they were using a

hairdryer to transfer the serial number stickers from real servers to dummy servers to show inspectors.

That's when you know you got a good deal.

When you've got the boss down there using a hairdryer to move the stickers on dummy stickers,

just incredible.

Now, I know that, you know, we have the chip smuggling crackdown.

The Trump administration actually loosened export restrictions on some of NVIDIA's advanced chips involved in the case.

Really, really strange.

But they weren't to be going to China before President went ahead and loosened some of those export restrictions.

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