Servers likely containing Nvidia chips exported to Malaysia may have been bound elsewhere: Shanmugam
Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam said the servers likely contained items subjected to export controls by the US.ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG
Andrew Wong
UPDATED MAR 03, 2025, 07:02 PM
SINGAPORE – An anonymous tip-off about computer servers that might contain Nvidia chips being exported to Malaysia, and possibly to an unknown final destination, sparked off a police investigation.
This alert did not come from any country or sovereign entity, but the claim was serious enough to get the Singapore authorities to launch an independent investigation, said Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam at a media briefing on March 3 at the Treasury.
Mr Shanmugam said preliminary investigations show servers from US firms Dell and Supermicro were sent to Singapore-based companies. The servers were then exported to Malaysia.
He said these servers likely contained items subject to export controls by the US.
But whether they ended up in Malaysia, or another country, is being looked into, he said.
He was referring to
a case allegedly linked to chipmaker Nvidia, which saw three men charged with fraud on Feb 27.
Servers likely containing Nvidia chips exported to Malaysia may have been bound elsewhere: Shanmugam
Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam said the servers likely contained items subjected to export controls by the US.ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG
Andrew Wong
UPDATED MAR 03, 2025, 07:02 PM
SINGAPORE – An anonymous tip-off about computer servers that might contain Nvidia chips being exported to Malaysia, and possibly to an unknown final destination, sparked off a police investigation.
This alert did not come from any country or sovereign entity, but the claim was serious enough to get the Singapore authorities to launch an independent investigation, said Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam at a media briefing on March 3 at the Treasury.
Mr Shanmugam said preliminary investigations show servers from US firms Dell and Supermicro were sent to Singapore-based companies. The servers were then exported to Malaysia.
He said these servers likely contained items subject to export controls by the US.
But whether they ended up in Malaysia, or another country, is being looked into, he said.
He was referring to a case allegedly linked to chipmaker Nvidia, which saw three men charged with fraud on Feb 27.