Sour grapes.

0 will happen to NVIDIA in case they are found to have engaged in wrongdoing. There’s 0 chance Huang goes to jail. Stop wasting time with this posturing.

This assumption has led to speculation that the company relied on restricted Nvidia GPUs that cannot be freely imported to China. Authorities, including the White House and the FBI, are investigating whether DeepSeek obtained restricted AI GPUs through third-party firms in Singapore. So far, officials have not publicly confirmed whether laws were broken, but Nvidia maintains that it follows all legal requirements.

Singapore plays a vital role in Nvidia’s global business, accounting for 22% of its revenue as of Q3 FY2025, up from 9% in Q3 FY2023 when the first significant restrictions on AI GPU sales to Chinese were introduced, as @tphuang noticed. However, the company clarifies that most transactions with Singapore involve shipments sent elsewhere, not China. Nvidia reports sales based on ‘bill to’ locations, which do not always reflect where the products are ultimately used.

No rules (laws) may have been broken by Nvidia, but they almost certainly knew that Singapore was used a re-export point for China. Nvidia almost certainly spend a lot of effort on sales analytics and there is no way they didn’t notice this.