There’s lots of scrutiny involving China obtaining advanced Nvidia chips despite strict U.S. export controls, with Chinese merchants already reportedly ordering Nvidia’s powerful Blackwell GPUs.
On Thursday, Singaporean police arrested three men for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips, Singapore’s national broadcaster Channel News Asia reported. The three men, two Singaporeans and one Chinese citizen, were charged with fraud on a supply of servers.
Singapore is investigating whether the servers, which were made by Dell and Supermicro, contained restricted Nvidia chips and were diverted somewhere else than their official destination of Malaysia, Bloomberg reported.
Nvidia’s latest annual report shows that it does sell to Singapore. The country represented 18% of fiscal year 2025 revenue although actual shipments to the country accounted for less than 2% of sales.
Dell told TechCrunch that it has a strict trade compliance program and investigates any customers who don’t adhere to it. Nvidia declined to comment, while Supermicro didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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