SINGAPORE, April 2 (Reuters) - Singapore prosecutors
charged one more person with fraud on Thursday for making false
representations to U.S. server supplier Dell Technologies ( DELL )
, linking her to two other individuals charged with
similar offences in February last year.
Jenny Lim was charged with conspiring with Alan Wei Zhaolun
and Aaron Woon Guo Jie in 2024 to commit fraud by misleading
Dell that Aperia International would be the end-user of the
servers bought from Dell, police said in the charge sheets.
Singapore Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said in March
last year that authorities ascertained that servers involved in
the case may contain Nvidia ( NVDA ) chips.
The servers were supplied by Dell and artificial
intelligence server maker Super Micro Computer ( SMCI ) to
Singapore-based companies, and were then sent on to Malaysia,
although it was not clear if Malaysia was their final
destination, he said.
The United States banned the export of high-end chips from
Nvidia ( NVDA ) to China in 2022 amid concerns that they could be used
for military purposes. The United States later approved the sale
of Nvidia's ( NVDA ) second-most powerful H200 chips in January this
year, with some conditions.
In 2024, Singapore was Nvidia's ( NVDA ) second-biggest market after
the United States, accounting for 18% of its total revenue in
its latest fiscal year, a February 2025 filing by the chipmaker
shows.
But Singapore said last year that only 1% of Nvidia's ( NVDA ) chips
"physically came" to Singapore to be deployed in its data
centres.
Nvidia ( NVDA ) classified revenue by the geographical location of
their customers' headquarters in its filing for the 2026
financial year. Sales in the United States, Taiwan and China
accounted for 98% of its revenue.
Separately, three people associated with Super Micro,
including its co-founder, were chargedin the United States in
March with helping to smuggle at least $2.5 billion of U.S. AI
technology to China, violating export laws.