The money laundering charges target Wei Zhaolun, CEO of Aperia Group.
Bro just wanted to live a nice life… But $42M is nothing. Merely 42 servers, 336 B300 GPUs. You can carry it away in a minivan. Export controls are incredibly tight. The Chynese will have to rely on their own compute.
Massive NVDA GPU smuggling from SGP, TW, Malaysia, etc. to PRC.
Just look at NVDA revenues by region.
Singapore seizes $42m mansion over Nvidia chip smuggling https://share.google/Y8A00Wl2kzOsUHkKE
Users dismissed smuggling Nvidia chips for large AI training as impractical due to prohibitive costs like $256M for 2048 B300s.
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Trinity Large was trained on 2048 B300s. That'd be $256 million, thank you very much. DeepSeek's entire funding round would amount to 59 thousand GPUs. No, I'm sure they could do wonders with 32K B300s + other expenses, but… that ain't gonna be enough. $125K per chip is death
Bro just wanted to live a nice life… But $42M is nothing. Merely 42 servers, 336 B300 GPUs. You can carry it away in a minivan. Export controls are incredibly tight. The Chynese will have to rely on their own compute.
@hsu_steve Damn that looks nice. It says a short walk from botanical gardens, pretty sure they mean Nassim area. Yeah it’s a super prime residential area. I know a few Indonesian tycoons own properties there
@hsu_steve $42M mansion from GPU smuggling, and meanwhile we're scraping for ZeroGPU credits 😂