Super Micro, run by Jensen Huang’s friend, says Megaspeed was ‘never’ its customer
Super Micro Computer says that Megaspeed, the Singapore company at the center of the spy scandal that brought down Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang, has never been one of its customers.
Key points
- “Megaspeed is not, and has never been, a Supermicro customer,” a spokesperson told Fortune in a statement.
- One of Supermicro’s three co-founders, Charles Liang, is a longtime friend of Jensen’s and the two both hail from Taiwan.
- However, Jensen’s downfall has cast a dark cloud over Supermicro at an intensely complicated moment for the hardware and liquid cooling tech company.
The assertion by Super Micro, whose cofounder was arrested earlier this year on charges of smuggling Nvidia chips to China, comes as observers look for possible connections between two companies whose business dealings with Nvidia are under scrutiny.
Additional details
- They’ve shared the stage at multiple massive Computex tech events in Taiwan, including in 2024 when Jensen was photographed having drinks with Alice.
- Multiple probes have been initiated into export control breaches related to Alice and her businesses, including Megaspeed.
- Both cofounded their companies in 1993 and Supermicro’s close relationship with Nvidia has been a boon for customers hoping to be first in line for the latest generations of high-performing chips Nvidia churns out.
- Another Supermicro cofounder, Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, was arrested and charged in March along with two others for allegedly working to route about $2.5 billion in servers with Nvidia’s H200 and B200 GPUs into China through a Southeast Asian front company.
- In August, prosecutors in Keelung, Taiwan indicted nine people over 130 Supermicro servers with Nvidia B300 chips that were allegedly cleared for shipment using forged data-center inspection records.
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