Malaysia will take 'necessary action' if its companies are involved in Nvidia fraud case: Trade minister
Malaysian says its authorities are discussing the issue with the data center companies and checking if the chips have gone to the right parties.
Malaysia said it will take "necessary action" against Malaysian companies if they are found to be involved in a fraud case linked to the alleged movement of Nvidia chips from Singapore to China.
That comes after Singapore Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam reportedly said on Monday that the servers in the fraud case may have contained Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips which were then sent to Malaysia.
On Feb. 27, Singapore charged three men with fraud, with local broadcaster CNA saying it understood the cases are linked to the alleged movement of Nvidia chips.
"The question is whether Malaysia was a final destination or from Malaysia, it went to somewhere else, which we do not know for certain at this point," Shanmugam told reporters.
He said such servers are imported by data center companies such as Microsoft, AWS and Google.
Singapore's Shanmugam had said Nvidia's chips were embedded in servers supplied by Dell and Supermicro to Singapore-based companies, before they went to Malaysia. He added that "there may have been false representation on the final destination of the servers."