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Singapore Under the Gun in Illegal Chip Smuggling

Gaming website exposes banned transshipment of GPUs

Sep 03, 2025
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By: Andy Wong Ming Jun

Singapore has found itself in the spotlight with the recent release of a three-and-a-half-hour documentary by the popular website Gamers Nexus, exposing the long-running and extremely profitable transshipment of illegal graphics cards, known as GPUs, circumventing the now-rescinded US embargo that targeted Nvidia’s H20 GPU chip.

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