The Ministry of Trade and Industry in Singapore (MTI) said in a statement on Saturday that it expects American companies to comply with American export controls and local laws, after questions about the chips used by Chinese Deepseek to produce the artificial intelligence model.
The markets were shook This week, after Deepseek claimed its great language model It excels over Openai But it costs a small part of the price for training. However, questions were quickly raised about the semiconductor source used to build the R1 Deepseek Thinking model He gave us our restrictions on exporting advanced artificial intelligence chips in China.
Bloomberg on Friday I mentioned American officials were investigating whether Dibsic had bought semiconductors from NVIDIA chip maker across Singapore.
NVIDIA spokesman CNBC said Monday that the chips used by Deepseek were completely compatible with export. Deepseek was not immediately available for comment when contacting it by CNBC.
“We expect American companies, such as NVIDIA, to comply with the US export controls and our local legislation. Agencies will continue to enforce customs and law enforcement of work closely with their counterparts in the United States,” MTI said in its statement.
“We have always supported the rule of law, and they were decisively and firmly against individuals and companies that flutter the rules.”
There The results of the third quarter NVIDIA published in November, Singapore represents nearly 22 % of her revenues, but added: “Most of the shipments related to Singapore's revenues for sites other than Singapore and shipments to Singapore were unimportant.”
MTI cited NVIDIA's comments on Saturday and said that the chip maker said there was no reason to believe that Deepseek had received any export -controlled products through Singapore.
MTI added: “Singapore is an international commercial center. American and European companies have important operations here. NVIDIA has explained that many of these customers use their business entities in Singapore to buy chips for products designated for the United States and other western countries.”
Ryan Brown of CNBC contributed to this report.
