{"id":1049140,"date":"2026-11-14T07:47:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T02:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1049140"},"modified":"2026-11-14T07:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T02:24:47","slug":"nvidia-fallout-throws-spotlight-on-southeast-asias-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/14\/nvidia-fallout-throws-spotlight-on-southeast-asias-ai-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia fallout throws spotlight on Southeast Asia&#8217;s AI boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southeast Asia&#8217;s chip and data centre industries expect greater scrutiny after news of former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang&#8217;s affair with a suspected Chinese spy put the spotlight on Singapore and Malaysia, executives and analysts said. <\/p>\n<p>US lawmakers from both parties are pushing for tougher restrictions on China&#8217;s access to advanced artificial intelligence chips after the Huang scandal increased scrutiny of Nvidia&#8217;s role in US national security. <\/p>\n<p>Washington restricts exports to China of Nvidia&#8217;s most advanced AI chips to protect US dominance of the sector, but lawmakers want to close a loophole that allows Chinese firms to rent computing power from overseas data centres and access the systems equipped with the chips remotely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southeast Asia&#8217;s chip and data centre industries expect greater scrutiny after news of former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang&#8217;s affair with a suspected Chinese spy put the spotlight on Singapore and Malaysia, executives and analysts said. US lawmakers from both parties are pushing for tougher restrictions on China&#8217;s access to advanced artificial intelligence chips after the Huang scandal increased scrutiny of Nvidia&#8217;s role in US national security. Washington restricts exports to China of Nvidia&#8217;s most advanced AI chips to protect US dominance of the sector, but lawmakers want to close a loophole that allows Chinese firms to rent computing power from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049159,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049140\/revisions\/1049159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}