Megaspeed exec was recruited to spy on Nvidia CEO, according to US intelligence memo

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A memo circulated earlier this twelvemonth claimed that exertion enforcement Alice Huang was recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security to spy connected Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to aggregate media reports.

The New York Times, which had antecedently said Nvidia’s main enforcement had been the people of Chinese intelligence, was the archetypal to study connected the memo, which was reportedly based connected U.S. intelligence. The Financial Times subsequently reported that the memo besides claimed Jensen Huang had a romanticist narration with Alice Huang, an enforcement astatine a Singapore-based institution called Megaspeed.

An Nvidia spokesperson told the NYT that Jensen Huang’s interactions with Alice Huang were “not unusual,” and that the institution does not stock classified accusation with its customers.

A separate NYT report examined New Matrix, a Chinese institution authorized by the U.S. Commerce Department to bargain precocious Nvidia chips. But astatine the bureau code listed by New Matrix, reporters lone recovered “a hollow grey shell,” raising concerns that it could beryllium a beforehand for a blacklisted backstage equity firm.

The Nvidia spokesperson said the institution sells “the first, champion and astir of our exertion successful America.”

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