Tighter enforcement would help reassure the US that Malaysia was taking steps to prevent high-end chips from being routed to China, a former deputy minister said. (Nvidia pic)PETALING JAYA: A former deputy minister had called for stronger government action to prevent high-end AI chips from being routed through Malaysia to China, by auditing companies suspected of transhipping high-end chips from Singapore.
Ong Kian Ming. a former deputy minister for international trade and investment. said the ministry could check how many chips had been imported and how many were installed in the companies' servers.
“It shouldn’t be too difficult to check companies suspected of transshipping these chips," he said in the Keluar Sekejap podcast. “You can check how many high-end graphics processing units they brought into Malaysia, mostly from Singapore, and then see how many are installed in their servers.”
