PLUS: Chinese bus lanes put Tesla in a tangle; India drops electronics tariffs; Samsung worries about soft demand Asia In Brief Nvidia’s quarterly results occasionally raise eyebrows because they report that Singapore is a disproportionately large market for its wares.

U.S. officials are investigating whether Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek skirted American export restrictions on advanced chip sales and bought advanced Nvidia (NVDA) semiconductors through third parties in Singapore,

The U.S. government is probing whether the Hangzhou-based AI firm has built its disruptive R1 AI model on restricted Nvidia chips.

SINGAPORE: Singapore expects Nvidia to comply with United States export controls and Singapore’s laws, the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) has said in response to queries about Chinese start-up DeepSeek possibly acquiring advanced Nvidia chips through intermediaries in Singapore.

Singapore has promised to work closely with the US authorities to probe allegations over China's AI firm DeepSeek, obtaining Nvidia chips through proxies.

Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry issued a statement on Saturday (Feb 1) following reports that Chinese company DeepSeek could have used US chips that are not allowed to be shipped to China.

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