Malaysia verifying report of Chinese firm bypassing US tech curbssnow

Kuala Lumpur (AFP) June 19, 2025

Malaysia's government is verifying media reports that a Chinese company may be circumventing US export curbs on high-end AI chips by using servers housing Nvidia chips based in the Southeast Asian country. The Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese engineers had flown to Malaysia in March carrying hard drives containing data to build artificial intelligence models in Malaysian data centre