The Singapore-based customer of Nvidia bought chips for data centers, and as the New York Times reported on November 9, U.S. officials were concerned that Megaspeed was illegally routing sophisticated chips to China.
Nvidia chips require export licenses from the U.S. Commerce Department. It appears, at least at this moment, that China was able to illicitly obtain Nvidia chips because of the Huang-Huang affair. In fact, Alice Huang had recently been bragging to investors about her access to Nvidia chips and about Megaspeed’s sale of these devices to Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant.
