Nvidia's unofficial exports to China face scrutiny after arrest of silicon smugglers in Singapore

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gives a keynote address at CES 2025, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. Jan. 6, 2025.Alarm bells went off in 2024 when Singapore unexpectedly emerged as Nvidia's second-largest revenue source. The disclosure fueled widespread speculation that Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips were being channeled to China.Those concerns intensified in January after China's DeepSeek burst onto the international AI scene due to the sophistication and reported cos ...