Who Is Alice Huang, the Woman in the Middle of Nvidia’s Spy Scandal?

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A New York Times profile draws on 15 years of corporate records and interviews to trace Alice Huang, the Shanghai financier who became close to Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang, acknowledged by him as an affair. The Times reports that her firm Megaspeed, routed through a Singaporean shell company, secured more than $4 billion in Nvidia chips despite U.S. export bans on China, and that U.S. officials concluded she was a Chinese intelligence asset recruited by the Ministry of State Security, which China denies; Jensen Huang said the Sunday before publication that Nvidia was investigating.

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