How Jensen Huang Built the Backdoor Route That Keeps Beijing in the AI Race
A Wall Street Journal investigation traces how Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang built a multibillion-dollar business and a network of Asian partners that gave China workarounds to U.S. chip export controls, a lucrative ecosystem now threatened by revelations of an affair with an executive at a partner, a possible Chinese intelligence asset, that blew up his career. Shipment records show her firm, Megaspeed, arranged to send nearly $12 billion worth of top Nvidia chips to China, while data centers in Malaysia and beyond rent computing power to Chinese customers including ByteDance and Alibaba.
