The Malaysian Ministry of Investment, Trade, and Industry has implemented new regulations regarding the export of artificial intelligence (AI) processors from the United States.

Malaysian authorities now require individuals and companies to notify them at least 30 days in advance when they are exporting or transshipping U.S. goods. AI processors, effective immediately.

In a press release, the Ministry stated that Malaysia is resolute in its opposition to any attempt by an individual or company to circumvent export controls or engage in illicit trade activities.

The Ministry also stated that any individual or company found to be in violation of the STA 2010 or related laws will be subject to severe legal consequences.

Suspected chip importation of U.S. In recent months, there have been numerous inquiries regarding the importation of AI processors into China.

In April, Anthropic asserted that China had already established sophisticated chip-smuggling networks in a blog post.

The post also asserted that smugglers were employing extreme measures to transport AI chips into China, such as filling prosthetic baby lumps with chips, and that they were transporting GPUs in conjunction with live crustaceans.

Anthropic’s April blog post advocated for the implementation of additional AI chip export regulations by the United States to prevent this form of smuggling. It is probable that those limitations will be implemented in the near future.

Bloomberg reported last week that the Trump administration was preparing to further restrict the export of AI processors from companies such as Nvidia to Malaysia and Thailand in order to prevent China from accessing these chips through an alternative entry point.

The Trump administration has not yet issued an official statement on this matter.

In addition, the U.S. Department of Commerce is developing its own set of general U.S. objectives. After the Biden administration’s AI Diffusion regulations were formally rescinded in May, AI chip export restrictions were implemented.