Servers used in Singapore fraud case may contain Nvidia AI chips, minister says
By Bing Hong Lok
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Servers used in a fraud case that Singapore announced last week were supplied by U.S. firms and may have contained Nvidia’s advanced chips, a government minister said on Monday.
Three men, including a Chinese national, were charged with fraud last week in Singapore. Domestic media linked the case to the transfer of Nvidia’s AI chips from Singapore to Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek.
Singapore’s Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam told reporters on Monday,
We assessed that the servers may contain Nvidia chips,
He said the servers involved in the case were supplied by Dell Technologies and Super Micro Computer to Singapore-based companies before they were sent to Malaysia.
He said,
Whether Malaysia was the final destination … we do not know for certain at this point,
adding that the authorities were investigating the case independently after an anonymous tip-off.
The minister also said Singapore has asked the U.S. authorities if the servers contained U.S. export control items, and told them it would work with them in any joint investigation.
The United States is investigating if DeepSeek, the Chinese company whose AI model’s performance rocked the tech world in January, has been using U.S. chips that are not allowed to be shipped to China, Reuters reported earlier.
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