Suspected of privately pursuing NVIDIA chips to China! Singapore AI chip smuggling case is delayed until August

The Singapore court has extended the hearing date for three suspected NVIDIA chips to China DeepSeek to August 22. The surveyor said more time is still needed to review documents and wait for responses from relevant international units.

According to Reuters, the three defendants, including two Singaporean citizens Woon Guo Jie (41) and Alan Wei Zhaolun (49), and a 51-year-old Chinese man, Li Ming, were charged with fraud. It is said that the three of them had the final destination for suppliers to virtual servers and other equipment in 2023 and 2024.

Singapore authorities broke into a large smuggling group this year and allegedly provided the banned NVIDIA GPU to DeepSeek, and the three were later arrested. DeepSeek launched the most popular big language model at the end of last year, with a model with performance comparable to that developed in the United States, attracting the attention of the United States.

The US government suspects that DeepSeek uses AI chips illegally obtained through national power. At the same time, NVIDIA also reported to the US that although Singapore accounts for 28% of the company's sales revenue, only 1% of the GPUs actually delivered to the local area.

As the United States implements export controls on high-level AI GPUs, chip smuggling problems have emerged, which has also prompted the U.S. Congress to require the Department of Commerce and private companies such as NVIDIA to explain their responsibilities. However, NVIDIA rejected the sale of GPUs to the blacklist organization, emphasizing that the company always complies with export control regulations.

Since Singapore is an important business hall in Southeast Asia, many companies often set billing addresses locally. Even if the payment location comes from Singapore, the actual delivery location may not be located, so it is difficult to grasp the final flow of controlled items such as high-level chips. In this regard, the United States is promoting a new bill that requires companies to add tracking technology for high-level games and AI GPUs to ensure that exported goods will not fall into inappropriate hands.

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