Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) said in a statement on Saturday that it expects American companies to follow American export control and local laws, after questions on Chips used by Dipsek, China, its AI To produce models.
Markets were shaken This week Deepsak claims its big language model Openai’s outperforms But a fraction of the price is spent to train. However, soon the questions were raised on the perfection of the semiconductors raised. Argument model Given US sanctions on export of advanced AI chips to China.
Bloomberg on Friday Informed American officials were investigating whether Deepsek had bought advanced semiconductors from Chipmaker Nvidia through third party in Singapore.
An Nvidia spokesman Told CNBC On Monday that the chips used by the Deepsek were completely exported. Deepsek was not immediately available for comment when contacted by CNBC.
MTI said in its statement, “We hope that American companies, like Nvidia, to follow the US export control and our domestic law. Our customs and law enforcement agencies work together with their American counterparts Will continue. ”
“We have always upheld the rule of law, and have acted decisively and strongly against individuals and companies provoking rules.”
In its Third quarterly results Published in November, Nvidia said Singapore is about 22% of its revenue, but he said: “Most of Singapore’s revenue shipments were at Singapore and shipments other than shipments and shipments in Singapore were insignificant.”
MTI cited NVDia’s comments in Saturday’s statement and said the chipmaker said there was no reason to believe that Deepsek had received any export-controlled products through Singapore.
MTI said, “Singapore is an international trade center. Major US and European companies have significant operations. NVidia has explained that many of these customers use their commercial institutions in Singapore, which for the US and other western countries To buy chips for fixed products. ”
– Ryan Brown of CNBC contributed to this report.
