Questions over Nvidia chip sales extend beyond Huang’s reported affairs

The article links the reports about Huang’s alleged affairs to a wider set of concerns over Nvidia chips reaching China despite US export controls. It says a report last week alleged Huang had been targeted by a suspected Chinese spy; a separate story named Kimberly Powell, an Nvidia vice president of healthcare. The source article claims Nvidia announced Huang had resigned on Thursday, but provides no independent confirmation of that claim.

The focus is also on Megaspeed, described as Nvidia’s largest Southeast Asian buyer. The Straits Times found no apparent activity at its Singapore office, and a tenant said the office was usually dark. Megaspeed director Tan Yong Pong appears to have vanished, the article says. Its Singaporean owner, Swiftdata, listed the address of an interior design firm. The article further reports that Alice Huang, an executive at Megaspeed, surfaced in Beijing and was barred from Singapore for giving police “inaccurate information.” It says her companies invested in Chinese AI firm DeepSeek and promised it Nvidia Blackwell chips.

Other cases raise similar questions. Three Super Micro executives, including co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, allegedly helped route $2.5 billion in Nvidia chips to Alibaba through a front company. Bloomberg identified the company as Thailand-based OBON. Super Micro and its chief executive, Charles Liang, have not been charged. The article also cites New Matrix, an approved Nvidia-chip buyer that The New York Times reported has ties to blacklisted firms or Chinese military contractors.

Huang has said Nvidia has seen “no evidence of any AI chip diversion.” The article says Nvidia intervened in a 2025 Commerce Department investigation of Megaspeed, reportedly halting it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has faced questions from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Republican lawmakers over the matter, according to Axios and Politico.

The source argues that scrutiny could intensify if Democrats control both chambers of Congress and Elizabeth Warren becomes chair of the Senate Banking Committee. It also cites reports that Huang’s security team had nondisclosure agreements ready after a video showed him and Powell being affectionate, and that rumors of their relationship had circulated for years. These claims, like the allegations of chip diversion, remain matters of reporting and investigation, not established findings.