TAIPEI, Aug. 26 -- Prosecutors in the Taiwanese port city of Keelung have described a route. Fifty artificial-intelligence servers moved through Indonesia. Eight went by way of Japan. The rest were sent directly to China. A further fifty-six were stopped at Taiwan's own border before they could leave.

Nine people have been indicted over those shipments, among them an employee of Nvidia's Taiwan unit and two employees of Super Micro Computer's Taiwan subsidiary. Eight face charges of breach of trust and document forgery. Three are charged with embezzlement.

Nvidia reports its quarterly results after Wednesday's close in New York, and in the latest completed session the market was buying the stock, up 2.19 per cent to $213.05. The number ...