February 26, 2025, Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
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Malaysia said it needed “necessary actions” against Malaysian companies. Fraud incident It is linked to alleged Nvidia chip moves from Singapore to China.
It comes after Singapore Law and Minister of Home Affairs K Shanmugum He reportedly said on Monday. The server for the fraud case may contain Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips that were subsequently sent to Malaysia.
On February 27, Singapore claimed three men for fraud. Local broadcaster CNA says I understood that the case was related to suspected Nvidia chip movement.
“The question is whether Malaysia was its final destination or was it from Malaysia. This has been to a place that is not certain at this point,” Shanmugam told reporters.
Speaking to CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Tuesday, Malaysian Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry Tengku Zafrul Aziz said there was no information that the data center company operating in Malaysia “is not using the chips it uses.”
He said such servers are imported by data center companies. MicrosoftAWS and Google.
Before going to Malaysia, Singapore’s Shanmugum said that Nvidia’s chips were embedded in servers Dell and Supermicro offer Singapore-based companies. He added: “There may have been some misrepresentation at the server’s final destination.”
When asked if Malaysia knows where the servers are currently located, Zahur replied, “We don’t know,” adding that Malaysian authorities are discussing with data centre companies to see if they’ve gone to the right people.
“At this point, there have been no incidents like Malaysia have ever been. We are investigating whether they are there. We will definitely discuss with Singapore. Then the companies must be held responsible by the relevant authorities,” he added.
The CNA also reported that two Singaporeans were charged with criminal conspiracy involving fraud against a server’s supplier.
CNA is said to have made a false statement in 2024 that it would not be forwarded to anyone other than the “end-user’s approved ultimate consignee.”
Fees will be made later Reuters reported in late January The US Department of Commerce is considering whether Chinese AI startup DeepSeek uses US chips that are not permitted to ship to China.
“The organized AI chip smuggling into China has been tracked from countries including Malaysia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates,” Reuters said, citing anyone familiar with the issue.
Zafrul told CNBC that Malaysia would check chip destinations, but “What I can say today [is] Tip is not intended to be in Malaysia in the first place. The question is, why are you leaving Singapore? ”
