Singapore suspects Nvidia chip smuggling via Malaysia

U.S.-made servers may have gone to China through SE Asia

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K. Shanmugam, Singapore's minister of law and of home affairs, briefs reporters on March 3 about the apparent smuggling of restricted U.S. semiconductors through Singapore. (Photo by Dylan Loh) 

DYLAN LOH

SINGAPORE -- Singapore said on Monday that servers containing semiconductors under U.S. export control appear to have been sent to Malaysia via the city-state, as a probe into a suspected case of technology smuggling deepens.

The city-state has asked the U.S. and Malaysia for help in the investigation, K. Shanmugam, the minister for law and for home affairs, told reporters at a briefing. He said the servers, supplied by U.S. tech firms Dell and Supermicro, came through Singapore and could have been fraudulently moved to its neighbor.

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