DOJ Probes Alleged Nvidia Smuggling Scheme Involving Alice Huang
Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO this week after acknowledging an affair with Alice Huang. US intelligence suspects she has ties to Chinese intelligence.
$7.5 billion in Nvidia chips reached Chinese firms through Megaspeed, according to one report.
Manhattan prosecutors are probing whether she helped move Super Micro products into China.
Her firm Hexi held a stake in a data center serving Huawei Cloud.
Alice Huang, 49, is reportedly living in Beijing and could not be reached.
Why it matters: The case puts the world's most valuable AI chipmaker at the center of a counterintelligence probe. It also tests how the US enforces chip export controls.
The DOJ and Commerce Department have investigated Megaspeed since 2024 for suspected chip diversion.
White House officials question why Commerce never put Megaspeed on the entity list.
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Where they split: Officials disagree on whether the evidence shows Alice Huang knowingly spied for Beijing or only posed a counterintelligence risk.
Center coverage, 5 sources: The center sees a tangled business and security story, tracing Alice Huang's corporate links and the history of romance-based espionage.
Left coverage, 3 sources: The left sees an intelligence picture that remains unproven, with the spy label possibly overstated and export-control gaps underexamined.
