by Dylan Kresak
The alleged Chinese spy having an affair with Jensen Huang helped funnel billions of dollars in restricted American AI chips to her home country, a report found.
Alice Huang, the former CEO of Singaporean tech company Megaspeed, used her ties to the Nvidia CEO and the company’s distributors to help move at least $7.5 billion worth of Nvidia chips to Chinese tech firms since 2023, the Information reported Tuesday. This follows Jensen Huang confessing to his affair with the suspected Chinese spy on Sunday.
The former Megaspeed executive, who has no familial relation to Jensen Huang, was able to acquire export-restricted Nvidia chips through their romantic relationship, Tom’s Hardware reported. It is further alleged that she personally intervene to ensure banned chips made it through the supply chain when issues arose.
Alice Huang assisted in the shipment of roughly 240,000 H100 and H200 Nvidia chips that were restricted from entering China due to the Commerce Department’s export controls, according to Reuters.
She posted photos with Jensen, sent their photos to customers and bragged about their relationship, Tom’s Hardware reported.
“We sell our data-center GPUs primarily to well-known partners, including original equipment manufacturers, system builders, integrators, and original design manufacturers, who work with us to ensure that all sales comply with U.S. export control rules,” an Nvidia spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The company applies this standard to every transaction, the spokesperson said.
“Our due diligence has helped identify suspected attempts to circumvent U.S. export controls, leading to federal prosecutions. Our work with law enforcement has led to prosecutions,” the spokesperson added.
Megaspeed faced allegations of funneling around $2 billion in Nvidia AI chips to China in 2025, according to the New York Times. The company called its alleged chip smuggling “misleading information,” CBS News reported.
“The potential for extortion is so tremendous that something as sensitive as Nvidia chips, I just think he’s got to go,” Republican North Carolina Sen. Kevin Cramer told Politico Tuesday, Reuters reported.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pressed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in a Thursday White House Situation Room meeting about why Megaspeed is not on the department’s entity list, Axios reported.
“How come Megaspeed isn’t on the entities list?” Bessent asked Lutnick, Axios reported.
The Commerce Department’s entity list includes companies that are blacklisted from trade with the U.S. due to national security concerns.
The Commerce Department did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
“While the Board has no reason to believe that either national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised, the Board’s inquiry will examine all available information,” Nvidia’s Board of Directors said in a Sunday press release.
Jensen Huang confessed to the affair in a Sunday company email.
“I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry,” Huang said, Axios reported.
President Donald Trump was “amazed” by allegations and said “Jensen totally denies” that his lover was an alleged Chinese spy, CNBC reported.
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Dylan Kresak is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “Jensen Huang” by World Economic Forum. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
