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 smuggling scandal is a black eye that will take a long time to heal and likely leave a permanent scar, making it a no-touch stock. Per @ns123abc, co-founder Wally Liaw was arrested and charged with smuggling $2.5B of Nvidia servers to China through a Southeast Asian shell company. With a founder and several employees arrested, vendors may move to Dell. x.com  x.com  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 should come off the watchlist because its administrative team has a criminal history. x.com 

Super Micro Computer's $7 billion equity raise is heavy dilution to fund AI spending, and the market is never going to like a raise that large. The stock sold off on the news, fitting a broader weakness theme around dilution for AI spend. x.com  x.com  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 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 has been rotten from the beginning, a stock to avoid when so many peers are available. Per @StockMKTNewz, citing CNBC, US prosecutors have charged a Super Micro co-founder, employee and contractor with smuggling Nvidia chips to China, yet the stock is only down about 3%. x.com  x.com 

Super Micro Computer is getting too cheap to ignore even if its earnings are questionable; its management is the main reason the stock is weak. Without them the shares would likely already be much higher, and @NebbioloNerd says the market will never trust the team and the stock would rip to $50+ if Liang and others stepped aside. The case leans on Trump being in office. 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