Super Micro Computer is not worth the risk regardless of its business or multiple, given early signs of sketchy business that have now escalated. Per @WOLF_Financial, its co-founder was charged with smuggling about $2.5B of servers with Nvidia AI chips to China via a Southeast Asian shell company, using fake paperwork and dummy servers to fool the compliance team. x.com 

Super Micro Computer looks like a fraud, and the earlier alarm raised on it is being borne out. x.com 

Super Micro should benefit as data centers buy the servers that house Nvidia's AI chips. Its quarterly sales outlook rose from $15B to $19B; the stock is 36% below its high and trades at 8x next year's earnings. It is a double from here. x.com  x.com 

Super Micro Computer is not to be trusted given its continued history of accounting fraud, and there are far better investments without that risk. The stock just dropped below $30 after smuggling $2.5B worth of Nvidia GPUs to China, which was no surprise. x.com 

Super Micro Computer faces governance risk as Taiwan's chip-smuggling probe reaches it. Per the Kobeissi Letter, the stock fell more than 9% after its Taiwan office was raided. The raid is unsurprising given that its CEO smuggled Nvidia products to China. x.com 

Super Micro Computer's nearly 40% drop over the past month is a market overreaction, since the allegations targeted a director, not the company, and found no company wrongdoing. Some of the pressure may have been competitor-driven or politically amplified. What matters is engineering strength: it builds roughly all of xAI's servers, is involved early in Terafab, and is often the first partner AI-chip startups such as d-Matrix turn to. It remains a long-term hold. x.com 

Super Micro Computer is a company to avoid on fraud concerns after its co-founder was arrested in an alleged $2.5 billion Nvidia chip smuggling scheme, per Zerohedge. x.com 

Super Micro Computer is an AI hardware company with a history of fraud and is likely committing some kind of fraud now, so a surprise guide of 15-17% Q4 gross margins versus 8% previously does not make it a credible long. x.com 

Super Micro's fundamentals are outrunning fear over its legal and accounting baggage. Its quarter beat with EPS of $0.84 versus $0.61 expected, gross margin rebounded to 10.1%, showing regained pricing power, and next-quarter revenue is guided up to $12.5 billion as AI customers queue for liquid-cooled servers. Management found no need to restate past results despite audit delays. Given the China export, DOJ and accounting issues, this is a bounce trade, not a long hold. x.com  x.com 

Super Micro Computer's CEO reeks of questionable character, and Taiwan's raid on its offices in an expanding chip-export probe adds to the concern. The open questions are how severe any fraud is and whether it is already priced in. x.com