The intermediary buyer was an unnamed Southeast Asian firm referred to by prosecutors as “Company-1,” which Bloomberg identified as ​Bangkok-based OBON Corp, citing sources.

Alibaba Group Holding was among the end customers, the report ​added.

In an emailed statement to Reuters, an Nvidia spokesperson said the ⁠company expects its ecosystem partners to adhere to strict compliance at every ​level, stating that it will continue working with the government to enforce the rules.

Separately, ​Alibaba told Reuters it has no business ties with Super Micro, OBON or any third-party brokers cited in the indictment, and said banned Nvidia chips have never been used in its ​data centres.

Super Micro did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment, while ​OBON could not be immediately reached.

In March, the US Justice Department charged Super Micro co-founder ‌Yih-Shyan ⁠Liaw, sales manager Ruei-Tsang Chang and contractor Ting-Wei Sun with running a scheme to route US-made servers through Taiwan to Southeast Asia, where they were repackaged into unmarked boxes and smuggled into China.

Prosecutors alleged at least $2.5 billion in US AI technology was ​moved, including more ​than $500 million shipped ⁠between April and mid-May 2025.

Some of the $2.5 billion servers sold to OBON allegedly went to Alibaba, the report added.

In 2022, ​the United States banned the export of high-end chips from Nvidia ​to China ⁠amid concerns that they could be used for military purposes, but approved sales of Nvidia’s second-most powerful H200 chips in January this year under certain conditions.

Separately, Super Micro shareholders sued ⁠the ​Silicon Valley server maker in March, accusing it ​of securities fraud by allegedly concealing its reliance on sales to China that violated US export laws.