Malaysia tightens the commercial control of the semi -conductors of the American pressure

Malaysia plans to tighten the regulations on the semiconductor trade as the United States puts pressure on the country to reduce the trade of illegal chips in China. According to the American authorities, some advanced NVIDIA chips may go to China by violating American export control rules.

Zaful AzizMalaysian Minister of Commerce said that the Americans are asking them to follow all NVIDIA shipping shipments that reach the country. The United States is particularly wondering whether these chips are already in databases that were intended and are not transferred to other places or countries.

The United States has recently provided strict regulations for exporting to trading on advanced semiconductors and relevant equipment to obstruct the technologies of the new generation in China, including artificial intelligence, for military applications. This anxiety was particularly intensified after three men in Singapore were accused of $ 390 million fraud, which sold NVIDIA chips to Malaysia to China.

The regulations that were offered in recent days have created a three -level license system for detention used in databases, such as NVIDIA. The purpose of the system is to prevent Chinese companies from obtaining these chips across the third countries. The Nvidia Singapore office is responsible for nearly a quarter of global sales for global sales, which Washington suspects that some chips may leak to China. The company claims that sales are almost exclusive of international companies ’bills and a very small number of chips that pass through Singapore.

Three weeks ago, Singapore Police arrested nine people – three of whom are accused of race at 22 locations for majestic servers containing NVIDIA chips. Prosecutors say that Dell and SuperMicro servers also participated in fraud. Singapore has requested assistance from the United States and Malaysia to investigate the movement of servers. Aziz said that the American authorities believe that Nafidia’s chips had been transferred to China after they passed to Malaysia. However, investigations did not find evidence that the chips had reached the Malaysian data center sold on paper.

Malaysia has become one of the fastest growing data center markets, especially in the South Johour, as it attracted more than $ 25 billion from companies such as NVIDIA, Microsoft and Tiktok Malik by Tetedance. The country recently agreed to establish a special economic zone with Singapore.

However, tracking the global supply chain of semiconductors is a very difficult task, including manufacturers of suppliers, suppliers and customers, as well as manufacturers and servers. Aziz stressed that the American authorities also put pressure on their private companies in order to ensure that they are transferred to the destination. “The implementation seems simple, but it is far from it,” the minister said.