Santa Clara on 26 February 2025, headquarters of Nvidia in California.
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Malaysia said that it will “take necessary action” against Malaysian companies if they are found involved in one fraud case NVDia is associated with the alleged movement of Chips from Singapore to China.
It comes after the Shanmugam of the Minister of Singapore Law and Home Affairs Allegedly said on Monday In the case of fraud, the server may include NVidia’s artificial intelligence chips which were then sent to Malaysia.
On 27 February, Singapore accused three people of cheating, Local broadcaster CNA is saying It was understood that the cases are related to the alleged movement of NVidia chips.
“The question is whether Malaysia was a final destination or from Malaysia, it went somewhere else, which we definitely do not know at this point,” Shanmugam told reporters.
Talking to CNBC “Squalk box asia“On Tuesday, Malaysia’s investment, trade and industry minister Tengu Zafrul Aziz said the country has no idea that data center companies working in Malaysia are not using chips that they are using. ,
He said that such server data centers are imported by companies like MicrosoftAWS and Google.
Shanmugam of Singapore had said that Nvidia’s chips were embedded among the Sarves supplied to the companies in Singapore by Dell and Supermacro before leaving for Malaysia. He said that “the final destination of the server could be false representation.”
Asked whether Malaysia knew where the servers were now, Zafarul replied, “We don’t know,” saying that Malaysian officials are discussing with data center companies and are investigating if they have gone to the right parties.
He said, “Right now, there are no such cases in Malaysia till date, and we are investigating whether they are. We will definitely discuss it to Singapore and well, companies will then be held accountable by the authorities concerned.”
The CNA also reported that two Singapuri was accused of having a criminal conspiracy to cheat a server supplier.
Citing the charge sheet, the CNA stated that they allegedly represented in 2024 that the item would not be transferred to any other person other than the “final batch of the last users”.
Allegations also come Reuters told in late January The US Commerce Department is considering whether the Chinese AI startup is using the Deepsek US Chips which is not allowed to be sent to China.
Citing a person acquainted with the case, Reuters said that “smuggling of AI chip for China has been excluded from countries including Malaysia, Singapore and United Arab Emirates.”
Zafrul told CNBC that Malaysia would check the destination of chips, but said, “What can I say today (Hai) Chips are not to be in Malaysia for the first time. So the question is why is it going out of Singapore?”
