Taiwanese Media Wrongly Accuses ASRock’s Nick Shih of Attempting To Smuggle NVIDIA-Based Supermicro Servers To China

ASRock's Legendary, Nick Shih has been falsely accused of smuggling NVIDIA servers to China by Taiwanese news agencies.

ASRock's Performance Team Leader, Nick Shih, Has Been Falsely Named As Part of a Network Responsible For Smuggling Banned NVIDIA Chips To China

Taiwanese media and news agencies have reported that the Keelung District Prosecutors' Office launched two waves of investigations into smuggling attempts involving Supermicro servers featuring the latest NVIDIA Blackwell chips. These investigations follow recent reports alleging that Supermicro sold $2.5 billion worth of NVIDIA chips to China via Thailand, Singapore, and other neighboring countries.

To date, six defendants, including Supermicro's business manager and senior executives, have been detained, but it was discovered that the smuggling network is much vaster than thought. The network relies on a chain of control within the US, China, and Taiwan.

There's also an unnamed Female Financier who has links to the Chinese military and operates behind the scenes.

She's said to be responsible for funding and orchestrating the whole scheme. Taiwan-based personnel act as middlemen who connect US company owners with Supermicro to place orders. Once the orders are placed, Supermicro manages these deliveries through a 3rd party telecommunication company and relabels the units to smuggle to China. Several network operators have been identified so far, and agencies have managed to uncover that in just three years, the network managed to make tens of billions of Taiwanese Dollars.

But in all of this, the biggest shocker came to me when Nick Shih, a long-time friend, and ASRock's Performance Team Leader + Legendary overclocker, was named as an accused on Taiwan media. The claim sounded really concerning, but Nick has since come out with a statement and said that he has nothing to do with this.

It should be noted that Nick Shih is wrongly accused, and has set the record straight with the following:

First, I have absolutely no connection with this smuggling case.

The "Taiwan-based Fang Ching-yun high-end chip smuggling case" mentioned in the report has absolutely nothing to do with me regarding the parties involved, the course of events, financial transactions, or any subsequent legal proceedings. I have never participated in or been involved in this incident, nor do I have any direct relationship with it.

II. Clarification of Reported Misstatements and False Speculations: The Case is Still in the Investigation Stage.

It is understood that the case is still under investigation by the investigative authorities. Previously, without verification with me and without any concrete evidence, some media outlets inadvertently included my irrelevant personal information, work details, or privacy in their reports. This method of piecing together irrelevant information to make insinuations is highly likely to lead readers to inappropriate associations. I firmly believe in the objectivity and impartiality of the judiciary and the media, and hereby clarify that the link was purely speculative.

Third, we urge everyone to stop reposting false information and protect our reputation.

Reputation and privacy are fundamental to an individual's integrity, and this incident has caused profound distress to my normal life, professional reputation, and family. I earnestly request all online friends, social media platforms, and media outlets to refrain from forwarding or disseminating any false information or making unverified comments before the judicial investigation is completed. I will continue to cooperate with the judiciary to clarify the truth and reserve the right to file civil and criminal lawsuits to defend my innocence.

Nick Shih (Machine Translated)

We want to state that investigations like these can be very brutal on any individual, especially when someone is falsely accused of something they weren't a part of. As such, we wanted to share Nick's official statement since the media reports didn't mention it at all.

Nick has been at ASRock for more than a decade, making great products (especially motherboards) is his passion, and every year, we see him at Computex, where he spends time enjoying simple things such as extreme LN2 overclocking. We hope to see his name cleared after the completion of the judicial investigation.

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