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KUALA LUMPUR, November 12, 2026 — Malaysia is ready to facilitate any formal request to investigate Speedmatrix Sdn Bhd, Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani said, though the government has yet to receive such a request, Bernama reported.
Johari was speaking to reporters after the launch of the MySaham MITI application in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday. “If they have a case, they come and check. No problem. We will facilitate,” he said, when asked whether the government had received a formal request to probe Speedmatrix, a Malaysian unit of the Singapore-based cloud computing firm Megaspeed International.
Bernama said it had been reported that Speedmatrix, which has been alleged to be linked to the Nvidia chip controversy, might have breached Malaysia’s export restrictions. The news agency also reported that Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, had admitted to an affair with a woman linked to Megaspeed International, and that the US chipmaker had announced his immediate resignation as president, chief executive and a board member pending an independent investigation. Life News Agency has already reported that resignation separately. This story is concerned with Malaysia’s position on a possible investigation of the local company.
Johari said he had already raised the matter with data centre operators, drawing a distinction between using graphics processing units (GPUs) in a company’s own data centre and re-exporting the chips. “So far I have already informed all the data centres… Is there anything wrong with Speedmatrix or Megaspeed renting the data centre? If there is nothing wrong and they buy the GPU for their own use in the data centre, then I cannot see what law that we need to use,” he said. “But if there is a restriction in re-exporting that GPU, that is something that we need to look into.”
The New Straits Times, reporting the same briefing, said the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry was reviewing existing laws to prevent Malaysia from being used as a transit point for the re-export of restricted GPU chips. Johari told that newspaper that Malaysia did not at present have a specific law to stop such movements, but that the government wanted to ensure chips that arrived in the country were used for their declared purposes in local data centres, particularly after the United States tightened export restrictions. “As a country, we want to make sure that such activity cannot take place in our country,” he was quoted as saying.
In a separate report published early on Friday, Bernama said Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs had issued a warning and barred former Megaspeed senior executive Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, a Hong Kong resident, from re-entering Singapore after a police investigation. The ministry said she had not been investigated for espionage, and that in February 2026 police, in consultation with the Attorney-General’s Chambers, had concluded there was insufficient evidence that she had committed offences relating to possible inaccurate declarations for which Megaspeed was being investigated. Police assessed, however, that she had given information she knew to be inaccurate in order to downplay her role in the company, the ministry said.
Johari did not say that Malaysia had opened its own investigation, and he did not allege any wrongdoing by Speedmatrix or Megaspeed. His position, as reported by Bernama, was that a formal request would be facilitated if it arrived, and that the re-export of restricted GPUs was the point of law that needed to be examined.
Source : Bernama. https://www.bernamabiz.com/news.php?id=2633589, November 13, 2026, from remarks made on November 12. Additional context from the New Straits Times on the same briefing, and from Bernama’s separate report on Singapore’s statement, November 12, 2026. The original post is at https://x.com/BernamaBiz/status/2120921722308506052.
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