Jensen Huang with Alice Huang
Months before Nvidia launched its own independent investigation, the publication reported that the American intelligence agencies already suspected that the woman, Alice Huang, was recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security and used her company to import banned Nvidia chips in mainland China.
Rubio oversaw a highly classified memo that circulated among senior administration officials in May, according to a report by The NYT. People briefed on the matter said the memo was shared with officials holding high-level security clearances ahead of Trump’s China trip in May. Another report from The New York Times, published last month, claimed that when US officials told Trump about a Chinese spy plot, he took no action.
Nvidia’s link to Singapore’s Megaspeed is getting awkward. Before US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned senior Trump administration officials about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s alleged ties to a Chinese businesswoman, the New York Times had already rung the warning bells. Megaspeed is the Singapore-based firm where Alice Huang is a senior executive, and the company has reportedly spent billions of dollars in Nvidia chip purchases. It warned that Jensen Huang had built a close relationship with Alice Huang, a Chinese citizen and senior executive at Megaspeed. The memo was based on intelligence gathered through electronic surveillance of Alice Huang. Reason: the report explains that the US was already leading China in the AI race and Trump did not want to ‘disrupt’ Nvidia’s chip sales, which were helping to drive the economy and the stock market, and of further complicating the trading relationship with China.