On Thursday, Singaporean police arrested 3 men for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips, Channel News Asia reported. The men, two Singaporeans and one Chinese citizen, were charged with fraud over a supply of servers.

Singapore is investigating whether Dell Technologies and Super Micro Computer servers shipped to Malaysia housed Nvidia chips barred from China.

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.

The news of the arrests in Singapore comes just one month after officials in the US announced they were specifically probing whether DeepSeek was working with third parties in Singapore to get its hands on Nvidia chips. If the reports are to be believed, it appears they may have found their answer.

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.

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.The United States is investigating if 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

Singapore accounts for only a very modest portion of Nvidia Corp.’s revenue, according to a senior official, as Washington is looking into whether Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has been securing chips via the Southeast Asian country.

Singapore is investigating a fraud case involving Dell (NYSE:DELL) and Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ:SMCI) servers supplied to Singapore-based companies and then shipped to Malaysia, which may have contained Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) chips that the U.