The Malaysias government confirms media reports that a Chinese company surrounds the US export edges into high-end AI chips by using servers that are Nvidia chips in the Southeast Asian country.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese engineers had flown to Malaysia in March in March that contained data that contained data on the establishment of artificial intelligence models in Malaysian data centers using advanced Nvidia chips.
The engineers are planning to bring the AI models back to China, the report says.
The United States have set the exports of advanced semiconductors to China, including those of the US Tech -giant Nvidia in order to receive a competitive advantage over technology.
In a statement by the Malaysian Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday it states that “the matter with responsible agencies was checked whether a domestic law or regulations were violated”.
The ministry said that servers that use Nvidia and AI chips are not classified as controlled goods under the Malaysian law, but the country will “work together with a government, the support in monitoring the trade with sensitive goods as part of the export control of their respective countries”.
The data centers in Malaysia “are free to make their own commercial decisions,” the explanation said, but added that a person or company was illegal to avoid export controls.
The Ministry of Commerce said that “always acting against every company working in Malaysia, including those who are involved in semiconductor and AI industries that violate the Malaysian and international trade regulations”.
When asked about the reports, Beijing insisted that Chinese companies had to operate on the local laws and regulations.
“At the same time, it rejects any files that force other countries to restrict their cooperation with China,” said Guo Jiakun, spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, to a regular press conference.
“China is ready to work with countries in the region, including Malaysias, to maintain a free and open international trade regulation together,” he added.
In March, three men were charged in Singapore for fraud in cases that reported reported to the transfer of AI-based Nvidia chips to China.
The Singapore government said server, which may contain AI-based Nvidia chips that were shipped from the United States to Singapore, had landed in Malaysia, but their final goal was unknown.
Local media combined their cases with the alleged movement of Nvidia chips from Singapore for the Chinese KI company Deepseek.
In January, Deepseek released his R1 chat bot, which shaken the global tech market and claims that his tool could match the capacity of the Top -UI products for a fraction of their costs.
