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U.S. investigates whether DeepSeek smuggled Nvidia AI GPUs via Singapore | Nvidia denies wrongdoing, but Singapore now accounts for 22% of its revenue.


Nvidia denies wrongdoing, but Singapore now accounts for 22% of its revenue.

By contrast, it took Meta 11 times more compute resources (30.8 million GPU hours) to train its Llama 3 model with 405 billion parameters using a supercomputer featuring 16,384 H100 GPUs over 54 days. 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. Howard Lutnick, nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Commerce Department, claimed during his confirmation hearing that DeepSeek managed to evade U.S. trade restrictions.

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