New News: Supermicro Executive Linked to NVIDIA Chip Smuggling; Dejin Technology's Ties to Liang Jianguo Family Exposed

A judicial investigation into senior executives at Supermicro for smuggling NVIDIA GPUs has drawn in several listed Taiwanese companies, including Pacific Internet, a subsidiary of Chunghwa Telecom, and graphics card manufacturer AcBel Polytech. Additionally, Dejin Technology, which has recently been aggressively expanding into AI computing centers, is now involved. Wang Kaiping, a director at Dejin, was recently exposed by a weekly magazine for allegedly collaborating with a Chinese national named 'Dai Fei' to smuggle graphics cards. However, Dejin Technology’s recent changes in corporate control are equally suspicious. Hengyingtai Capital, represented by Wang Kaiping and the company’s major shareholder, signed a shareholding agreement last year with Liang Jianguo, younger brother of Supermicro’s Liang Jianhou, agreeing that Liang would acquire a 30% stake in Dejin. However, the arrangement was overturned during a board meeting in September, prompting Hengyingtai Capital to file a lawsuit.

The global AI demand explosion, triggered by the 2024 launch of chatGPT, has made Supermicro—a server giant operated by a Taiwanese-American family—the subject of intense media attention in Taiwan. Liang Jianguo, brother of Liang Jianhou and head of Haoran Technology, leveraged his position as a Supermicro supplier to acquire stakes in multiple Taiwanese listed companies. Dejin Technology, whose original satellite set-top box business had been declining, was rumored in 2024 to be taken over by Supermicro, sending its stock price soaring to over 100 TWD per share.