Supermicro is a legitimate hardware company based in San Jose, California that nonetheless has a long list of brushes with legal controversy. And today, according to Bloomberg, it had its Taiwan office and about eight other locations raided as part of a U.S. federal case over alleged AI chip smuggling—or to put it another way, noncompliance with U.S. export controls. Shares closed down about 8% if you care about that sort of thing. Bloomberg notes that the