报道称英伟达 CEO 黄仁勋遭中国情报行动针对
Report: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a Chinese spy - SiliconANGLE
《纽约时报》援引知情人士称，英伟达 CEO 黄仁勋被卷入一起中国情报行动，涉及新加坡数据中心运营商 Megaspeed 高管 Alice Huang（黄乐），美方认为她是中方情报人员。报道称她与黄仁勋建立密切关系，并在一年后促成 Megaspeed 向英伟达采购约 20 亿美元 GPU，芯片流向马来西亚和印尼的数据中心，而这些数据中心疑似服务中国客户。美国商务部约两年前在马来西亚一处 Megaspeed 数据中心发现 GPU 未装入机架、仍留在箱中，随后启动调查，司法部今年接手，情报机构对 Alice Huang 实施了电子监控。英伟达回应称与客户会面是 CEO 日常工作，并称针对该区域云服务商的转运指控去年已被彻底调查并否定。
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Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Jensen Huang was reportedly targeted by a Chinese espionage operation.
The New York Times today cited people familiar with the matter as saying that the ploy involved Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data center operator. A Megaspeed executive named Alice Huang or Huang Le, who is of no relation to Jensen Huang, reportedly “developed a close relationship with Jensen.” U.S. authorities believe that she is a Chinese asset.
“Jensen’s interactions with Ms. Huang are not unusual or unexpected,” an Nvidia spokesperson told the Times. “Meetings with customers are part of a C.E.O.’s job; Jensen talks with thousands of customer executives every year.”
A U.S. Commerce Department official reportedly visited a Megaspeed data center in Malaysia about two years ago. The graphics processing units on the premises weren’t installed in server racks but were instead found in boxes. According to the Times, that raised suspicions Megaspeed was planning to ship the GPUs elsewhere. The Commerce Department subsequently launched a probe into the company.
The Times carried out an investigation of its own by visiting Megaspeed’s headquarters in Singapore and reviewing its corporate documents. The paper discovered that the company’s Singapore director, who appears to be its owner, lives in China. Alice Huang, in turn, was at one point listed as managing director of Megaspeed. The company reportedly removed her name from its corporate documents after the Commerce Department began its probe.
In June 2024, Alice Huang was photographed sitting next to Jensen Huang and other AI industry executives at a party in Taipei. A year later, she reportedly arranged for Megaspeed to purchase about $2 billion worth of GPUs from Nvidia. The Times’ sources stated that the chips were bound to data centers in Malaysia and Indonesia that appear to be used by customers in China.
The U.S. Justice Department took over the Commerce Department’s probe earlier this year. The U.S. intelligence community, in turn, reportedly conducted electronic surveillance of Alice Huang.
Intelligence officials briefed U.S. President Donald Trump about the matter last year. According to the Times, the officials believed that Jensen Huang didn’t know Alice Huang had been trying to gather information for China. Trump reportedly took no action in response to the briefing.
“Our regional cloud customers receive ordinary business information — not sensitive Nvidia trade secrets — and zero information relevant to national security,” the Nvidia spokesperson said.
The chipmaker independently investigated whether any of the GPUs it had sold to Megaspeed may have ended up in China. “The diversion allegations against this regional cloud were thoroughly investigated and debunked last year,” Nvidia stated today.
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