Southeast Asia's chip and data centre industries expect greater scrutiny after news of former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's affair with a suspected Chinese spy put the spotlight on Singapore and Malaysia, executives and analysts said.
\n\nUS lawmakers from both parties are pushing for tougher restrictions on China's access to advanced artificial intelligence chips after the Huang scandal increased scrutiny of Nvidia's role in US national security.
\n\nWashington restricts exports to China of Nvidia's most advanced AI chips to protect US dominance of the sector, but lawmakers want to close a loophole that allows Chinese firms to rent computing power from overseas data centres and access the systems equipped with the chips remotely.
\n\nTougher regulations could include new export rules and licensing requirements to Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore, the Wall Street Journal reported.
\n\nThe alleged spy, Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang, was an executive at a cloud computing firm in Singapore called Megaspeed that has subsidiaries in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and the US.
\n\nMegaspeed has been under investigation by Singapore authorities since February last year for potential false declarations in relation to the purchase of servers and other related offences.
\n\n"After this case, every operator in the chain will be…
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