Nvidia CEO asked to brief Congress on Chinese spy ties

On November 5, three House Republican committee leaders, Brian Mast, John Moolenaar and Rick Crawford, asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang for a closed-door briefing. The letter cited national security concerns over China's access to sensitive U.S. technology and focused on his relationship with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, reportedly identified as a Chinese intelligence asset. Nvidia did not confirm whether Huang would attend.

The next day, lawmakers said they wanted Huang to appear before Congress on November 18 over reports that U.S. intelligence officials believe he was targeted by a Chinese spying operation. They said concerns center on Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, which has bought billions of dollars of Nvidia chips. Nvidia rejected the claims, saying customer meetings are ordinary business and do not involve trade secrets.

On November 7, The New York Times reported that China's Ministry of State Security recruited a woman, Alice Huang or Huang Le, to spy on Jensen Huang. She was listed as managing director of Singapore-based Megaspeed until at least 2023. The operation aimed to learn about Nvidia's advanced hardware and persuade Huang to lobby for GPU exports to China.