Malaysian says its authorities are discussing the issue with the data center companies and checking if the chips have gone to the right parties.

Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz made the pledge as he gave updates on investigations into an alleged fraud case involving servers exported from Singapore that may have contained Nvidia chips.

Malaysia is investigating if local laws were breached in the shipment of servers linked to a Singapore fraud case, as they may have contained advanced chips subject to US export controls. Read more at The Business Times.

This is in relation to a case allegedly linked to chipmaker Nvidia, which saw three men charged with fraud on Feb 27. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Malaysia has no evidence suggesting that data center companies in the country are using unauthorized Nvidia (NVDA, Financials) artificial intelligence chips, Malaysian Trade Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz said in a CNBC interview,

Singapore is investigating whether Dell Technologies Inc. and Super Micro Computer Inc. servers shipped to Malaysia housed Nvidia Corp. chips barred from China, outlining a case that’s highlighted the role of middlemen in funneling high-end semiconductors.

Malaysian Trade Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz said the country will take "necessary action" against Malaysian companies if they're implicated in a fraud case involving Nvidia Corp. chips allegedly routed from Singapore.

Servers used in a fraud case that Singapore announced last week were supplied by U.S. firms and may have contained Nvidia's advanced chips, a government minister said on Monday. Singapore last week charged three men with fraud in a case local media linked to the movement of Nvidia's AI chips from the city-state to Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek.

Servers that may contain AI-powering Nvidia chips shipped from the United States to Singapore ended up in Malaysia, but their actual final destination remains a mystery, the city-state's interior mini