There is a lot of discussions on Export Ban. Does selling to a Singapore Company with Chinese Stakeholders considered illegal under those ban? Does Nvidia have to track every single GPU sold or even resold?

I was under the impression he sold it to a Singapore company, or even any other companies. What those companies do with those GPU is not his fault.

This whole thing is just a sad story.

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ZoneZealot 2 days ago | parent [-]

'Singaporean' company whose former managing director (Chinese national Alice Huang / Huang Le) and owner (through a self-titled company) is the same person he's had an extramarital affair with.

The same company they've audited the datacentres of, and saw dummy non-running servers within which had been stripped of their GPUs, and were 'fooled' that they were simply yet to be commissioned.

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ksec 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Plenty of companies are started by Chinese Nationals. Including inside US.

On 2nd point, even Hyperscalers have large stack of GPU sitting idle yet to be commissioned.

	▲	ZoneZealot 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The point is that there is clearly knowledge of the company having heavy ties to China - his affair partner owned it. Therefore, heavy caution should be taken with regard to export controls. Instead it acted like a gold stamp. Yes US hyperscalers have plenty of hardware but are running out of 'warm shells' to put them into. It's not much of a problem in Southeast Asia.

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voganmother42 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The investigation was also halted