The Super Micro prosecution is the first enforcement action in the AI chip competition that requires a defense attorney rather than a policy brief. Three individuals — including the company's co-founder — now face federal conspiracy charges for routing at least $2.5 billion in high-performance AI server technology to China in violation of export laws . The significance is not the dollar figure; it is the mechanism. The charges describe insiders navigating compliance systems they understood well enough to circumvent, which is a different category of violation than ignorance or…