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By Mackenzie Hawkins

July 28, 2026 at 12:48 AM EDT

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Taiwanese prosecutors have detained an Nvidia Corp. employee and searched the company’s offices as part of a widening probe into the alleged smuggling of AI accelerators into China, according to people familiar with the matter.

The move may be the first known instance of government authorities taking legal action against an employee of the chipmaker, after a slate of detentions in Taiwan that included employees of Super Micro Computer Inc., an AI server reseller and a data center operator. Taiwan officials executed the first round of detentions in May, accusing three individuals of falsifying documents in order to export Nvidia AI chips to China in violation of US trade restrictions.

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