Officials in Washington are reportedly scrutinizing chip shipments to Singapore following the recent success of Chinese startup DeepSeek.

Singapore charged three men with fraud in a case domestic media have linked to the movement of Nvidia's advanced chips from the city state to Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek.

Three Singapore men were charged with stealing from a supplier of computer servers, shedding light on the role of local intermediates in the global distribution of Nvidia Corp. chips.

Singaporean police arrested three men for allegedly defrauding an unnamed supplier of computing servers, casting a spotlight on local intermediaries’ role in funneling Nvidia Corp. chips around the world.

A 51-year-old Chinese national was charged with fraud and two from Singapore were charged with criminal conspiracy to conduct fraud.

Three men have reportedly been charged yesterday with fraud in a case allegedly linked to US chipmaker Nvidia, amid increased scrutiny over the island’s role in global semiconductor trade. The Straits Times reported that the accused were Singaporeans Aaron Woon Guo Jie,

Singaporean police charged three men for allegedly defrauding an unnamed supplier of computing servers, casting a spotlight on local intermediaries’ role in funneling Nvidia Corp. chips around the world.

Three men were charged with fraud in Singapore on Thursday following raids linked to the alleged illegal movement of Nvidia Corp. chips to China, bypassing U.S. export controls.

SINGAPORE - Three men were charged with fraud on Feb 27 in a case allegedly linked to chipmaker Nvidia. This was after Singapore came under the spotlight in a US investigation into whether Chinese start-up DeepSeek had circumvented US restrictions on advanced Nvidia chips by buying them from third parties in other countries, including the Republic.

Two Singaporeans – Aaron Woon Guo Jie, 41, and Alan Wei Zhaolun, 49 – were charged with criminal conspiracy to commit fraud on a supplier of servers. They allegedly made false representations in 2024 that the items would not be transferred to a person other than the "authorised ultimate consignee of end users", charge sheets stated.