Malaysia plans to tighten laws on semiconductors because it comes beneath United States strain to staunch the flow of chips essential to the event of synthetic intelligence (AI) to China, the Monetary Occasions reported on Sunday (Mar 23).
Commerce Minister Zafrul Aziz stated that the US authorities was demanding Malaysia intently monitor the motion of high-end Nvidia chips that enter the nation over suspicions that many are ending up in China, in accordance with the report.
“[The US is] asking us to be sure that we monitor each cargo that involves Malaysia when it entails Nvidia chips,” Aziz informed the newspaper.
“They need us to be sure that servers find yourself within the knowledge centres that they are speculated to and never immediately transfer to a different ship.”
Nvidia didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.
The US is investigating if DeepSeek, whose AI mannequin’s efficiency rocked the tech world in January, has been utilizing banned US chips.
Malaysia is at the moment investigating if native legal guidelines had been breached within the cargo of servers linked to a Singapore fraud case, as they could have contained superior chips topic to US export controls.
Singapore prosecutors informed a courtroom earlier in March that the case during which Singapore-based companies have been accused of fraudulently supplying US servers to Malaysia involves transactions worth US$390 million.
Singapore media have linked the case to the doable switch of Nvidia’s synthetic intelligence chips to Chinese language synthetic intelligence agency DeepSeek.
