The Singaporean Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) announced on Saturday in a statement that he expects US companies to obey US export control and local laws, following the chips used by Chinese Deepseek to produce its AI model.
The markets are shaken This week after Deepseek claimed his great language model surpasses Openai’s But it cost a fraction of prices for training. However, questions were soon asked because of the origin of the semiconductor used to build a Deepseek R1 Model of explanation Given US limitations for exporting advanced AI chips in China.
Bloomberg on Friday reported That US officials explored whether Deepseek had bought advanced semiconductors from Nvidia’s chips across the third party in Singapore.
Spokesman Nvidia said CNBC On Monday that the chips used by Deepseek were fully in line with exports. Deepseek was not immediately available for comment when he was contacted by CNBC.
“We expect US companies, such as Nvidia, in accordance with US export controls and our domestic legislation. Our agency for the implementation of Customs and the Law will continue to cooperate with its US colleagues,” MTI said in its statement.
“We have always supported the rule of the law and acted decisively and firmly against individuals and companies that are fluid of rules.”
In your own The results of the third quarter Posted in November, Nvidia said Singapore made up almost 22% of her income, but added that: “Most of the shipments associated with Singapore’s revenues were in locations that were not Singapore and the shipment to Singapore, they were insignificant.”
MTI quoted the comments of Nvidia in his Saturday statement and said that the chips manufacturer said that there was no reason to believe that Deepseek had received any products under Singapore exports.
“Singapore is an international business center. The main American and European companies have significant jobs here. Nvidia explained that many of these customers use their businesses in Singapore to buy chips for products for the US -UI other Western countries,” MTI added.
– CNBC -ov Ryan Browne contributed to this report.
