Malaysia plans to tighten chip rules and says Washington demanded it track high-end Nvidia (NVDA) chips entering the country, over suspicions that many end up in China, violating U.S. export rules, The Financial Times’ Owen Walker and Alec Russell report. Trade minister Zafrul Aziz says he has formed a task force with digital minister Gobind Singh Deo to tighten regulations around Malaysia’s data center sector, which relies on chips from Nvidia. ” asking us to make sure that we monitor every shipment that comes to Malaysia when it involves Nvidia chips,” Zafrul told the Financial Times. Other publicly traded companies in the space include AMD (AMD), Intel (INTC), Marvell (MRVL), Microchip (MCHP), Micron (MU), Qualcomm (QCOM) and Texas Instruments (TXN).