The Thai end of the Supermicro chip-smuggling case has a name, and it sits inside Bangkok’s national AI plan

The Next Web
By Alina Maria StanMay 8, 2026, 4:17 am24 pts
US prosecutors believe a company at the centre of Thailand’s national AI strategy helped move billions of dollars in Nvidia-equipped Supermicro servers into China, with Alibaba among the eventual customers, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The company is OBON Corp., a Bangkok-based AI infrastructure firm that…

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