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Bloomberg reported that the Chinese company founded by Huang Le was suspected of obtaining controlled Huida H800 chips, and found that related servers had been moved to Shanghai after Aperia and Dell did business, prompting investigations in Singapore and Malaysia.
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According to documents reviewed by Bloomberg, a Chinese company founded by Huang Le purchased smuggled AI chips, which were then installed in a Shanghai data center linked to Singapore data center company MegaSpeed International. Huang Le was a senior executive at Megaspeed International.
Some servers were initially sold to Singapore-based Aperia Cloud Services, Huda’s official cloud partner, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic.
However, documents show that the hardware did not remain in Singapore, but appeared to be at a larger AI facility in Shanghai.
Bloomberg reported that Apia had purchased 22 servers equipped with Huida H800 chips from Dell Technologies, and the United States had limited sales of this chip to China in 2023.
Bloomberg provided the servers’ serial numbers to a person familiar with the deal, who confirmed that Aparia was indeed a Dell customer.
Dell said in a statement that it has “ceased all sales and support services to Aperia International in February 2025 due to concerns about unauthorized transshipment.”
The same month, Singapore arrested Aperia’s CEO on suspicion of defrauding a server provider. He has pleaded innocent to the charges and is awaiting trial.
In May of the same year, Huang Jen-hsun said that there was “no evidence” of chip transfer behavior.
Huida said the company was not an active customer at the time of the Apperia CEO’s arrest and has since been removed from the public list of official cloud partners. Aperia denies any wrongdoing.
Bloomberg cited documents handed over to the government. A subsidiary of Shanghai Longteng Intelligent Data Group, founded by Huang Le 10 years ago, detailed the hardware purchased by Aperia from Dell in filing materials, showing they were installed in 193 servers in Shanghai.
Bloomberg reported that the related documents did not explain how the Huida chips were obtained, nor did they mention whether Huang Le himself was involved in the transaction.
MegaSpeed said yesterday it was investigating whether the chip complied with export controls. Malaysia said it was investigating a subsidiary of MegaSpeed to find out whether it had transferred advanced AI chips to other countries.
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The core of the report is that the Chinese company founded by Huang Le is suspected of obtaining Huida H800 chips that are subject to US export controls, and the relevant servers no longer remain in Singapore, but appear to be in a Shanghai data center, which involves suspicions about the transshipment of chips.
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Documents show that Aperia purchased 22 servers equipped with H800 chips from Dell. Bloomberg then compared serial numbers and found that these hardware were later included in 193 servers in Shanghai, indicating that they may have been transferred through a third party.
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Dell has discontinued service to Apperia due to concerns about unauthorized transfers; Singapore arrests Aperia CEO; Malaysia is also investigating its MegaSpeed subsidiary to confirm whether advanced AI chips have been transferred to other countries.
