[vuurmot]

It is a pretty unfounded claim.

Singapore holds the headquarters of a lot of SEA megacorporations, as well as regional HQs of big tech in both USA/China.

These chips are bought from these HQs and redistributed to the rest of the world (Singapore is a major shipping hub). India imports chips through their HQs in Singapore, so does Australia, Saudi Arabia, Europe, America, etc.

Maybe you could make the case that shady companies are exporting to China, but I am fairly skeptical as there are already American officials in Singapore collaborating to investigating this issue

[reissbaker]

America imports GPUs from Singapore? I don't think Singapore is more than a drop in the bucket of America's GPU imports. America imports them from Taiwan.

This makes me skeptical of your other claims. Do you have evidence that most of the rest of the world for some reason routes their GPU imports through Singapore? That seems quite pointless.

[lmm]

> America imports GPUs from Singapore? I don't think Singapore is more than a drop in the bucket of America's GPU imports. America imports them from Taiwan.

Most stuff shipped from Taiwan to America goes via Singapore at least physically. It's the big shipping hub in the region.

[vuurmot]

There are plenty of other comments citing Nvidia statements, so I don't think I need to address this.

Certainly the tendency for people here to reach for the most conspiratorial theories is bizarre to me.

[reissbaker]

"Bill to" vs "ship to," as Nvidia claims, doesn't explain why Singapore's share of revenue increased from 9% to 22% in two years, unless you think that American multinational companies didn't bill to Singapore until two years ago, and suddenly all switched — which there is no evidence for. Coincidentally, "two years ago" lines up with when the Hopper chip ban went into effect. That's obviously sketchy, which is why people are suspicious.