Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz made the pledge as he gave updates on investigations into an alleged fraud case involving servers exported from Singapore that may have contained Nvidia chips.

Malaysia's burgeoning data centre industry has quickly felt the fallout of Singapore's probe into Nvidia chips that were allegedly sent to third countries by fraudulently marking Malaysia as their final destination.

Singapore is investigating whether Dell Technologies Inc. and Super Micro Computer Inc. servers shipped to Malaysia housed Nvidia Corp. chips barred from China, outlining a case that’s highlighted the role of middlemen in funneling high-end semiconductors.

Servers used in a fraud case that Singapore announced last week were supplied by U.S. firms and may have contained Nvidia's advanced chips, a government minister said on Monday.

Servers that may contain AI-powering Nvidia chips shipped from the United States to Singapore ended up in Malaysia, but their actual final destination remains a mystery, the city-state's interior minister said Monday.

The investigation follows reports of arrests tied to alleged deception in the procurement and shipment of high-end semiconductors.

Singapore is investigating a fraud case involving Dell (NYSE:DELL) and Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ:SMCI) servers supplied to Singapore-based companies and then shipped to Malaysia, which may have contained Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) chips that the U.