NVIDIA Launches Investigation Into Jensen Huang's Relationship With Suspected Chinese Spy
NVIDIA announced on Sunday that the company's board of directors is launching a full-scale independent investigation into recent reports of founder…
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NVIDIA's board of directors initiated an independent investigation into founder and CEO Jensen Huang following reports of a relationship with a woman employed at Megaspeed, a company the U.S. intelligence community suspects is a Chinese state agent. According to reporting, the woman worked as an executive at Megaspeed, which is believed to facilitate circumvention of American export controls on NVIDIA chips destined for Chinese companies.
Megaspeed and its affiliated companies reportedly operate data centers in Malaysia to serve Chinese customers seeking access to computing resources. The U.S. government has prohibited NVIDIA from shipping certain chips to Chinese buyers, making the alleged arrangement a potential violation of export restrictions.
The investigation centers on allegations that China's Ministry of State Security recruited the Megaspeed executive to extract information from Huang. NVIDIA's board stated it remains confident in Huang and the company's leadership team while conducting the inquiry.
What happened
NVIDIA announced on Sunday that the company's board of directors is launching a full-scale independent investigation into recent reports of founder and CEO Jensen Huang having a relationship with a woman the U.S. intelligence community beleives is an agent of the Chinese state. A few days ago, The New York Times broke a story that Jensen had engaged in a close relationship with an executive at Megaspeed, named Alice Huang. Megaspeed is believed to be helping evade U.S. export controls on NVIDIA chips for Chinese companies, allowing them to use chips that have been banned by the U.S. Government from shipping to Chinese customers. Its network of sister companies is building data centers in Malaysia to satisfy the compute needs of Chinese customers.
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- 01 Tomshardware first seen Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits to having an affair with suspected Chinese spy
- 02 Pcgamer +0m Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits to affair with alleged Chinese spy as company board launches
- 03 Techpowerup +8.9h NVIDIA Launches Investigation Into Jensen Huang's Relationship With Suspected Chinese Spy
- 04 Eurogamer +17.9h Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang under investigation after admitting affair with alleged Chinese spy
- 05 Tomshardware +17.9h Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang summoned to Congress over affair with alleged Chinese spy
- 06 Techcrunch +20.8h Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy puts Nvidia’s China ambitions under scrutiny
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