Taipei (AFP) – Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang is accused of spying for Beijing on Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, the American artificial intelligence chip giant, with whom she had a romantic relationship, according to press reports.

First modification: 11/09/2026 - 10:25

Public information about her, also known as Huang Le, is scarce, and she reportedly held a senior position at a Singapore-based data center company called Megaspeed International.

This is what is known about her and the company:

Who is Alice Huang?

According to The New York Times, Alice Huang is a Chinese national recruited by Beijing to gather intelligence on the head of Nvidia. The newspaper was the first to reveal the alleged espionage plot.

Despite sharing a last name, Huang is not related to the 63-year-old Taiwan-born CEO who runs the world's most valued company on the stock market.

According to The New York Times, Alice Huang speaks English well and has high-level contacts in the artificial intelligence chip sector, a strategic area with possible military applications in which the United States and China compete.

An internet search found a profile of Alice Huang, accompanied by a photograph, in a Chinese investment fund database. According to that profile, he had worked at HSBC bank and as a journalist at the Chinese media CCTV and Hunan TV.

AFP was unable to verify the content of the profile or who had created it.

What relationship did the two have?

Several media outlets claimed last week that Alice Huang and the CEO of Nvidia maintained a very close relationship. On Sunday, Jensen Huang told his employees that he "deeply" regretted being "unfaithful" to his wife.

A photograph posted on Linkedin from an industry party held in 2024 appears to show Nvidia's top executive, dressed in a leather jacket, sitting next to a woman with long hair and flashy jewelry who is believed to be Alice Huang.

The following year, they both attended a dinner organized by Jensen Huang at a Chinese restaurant in Taipei coinciding with the Computex technology fair.

The journalists, stationed at the doors of the restaurant, recorded Jensen Huang and a woman identified as Alice Huang, who was wearing a pink dress, through the glass while they were chatting with other attendees.

Footage was also recorded of Jensen Huang putting his arm around Alice Huang, who kisses him on the right cheek. Later, they both leave the restaurant in the same car.

What is Megaspeed?

According to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, US authorities concluded last year that Alice Huang was spying on Jensen Huang.

At the time, Alice Huang held a senior position at Megaspeed International, a data center company that rents computing capacity to other companies to train and run artificial intelligence systems.

Megaspeed's website states that it is "a critical business partner of Nvidia's cloud computing business in the Asia-Pacific region."

On Linkedin, the company indicates that it has offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, with between two and ten employees and 25 "associate members."

When AFP called the number listed on Megaspeed's website, the person who answered said he did not know the company and that the number was for a residential line.

Did Megaspeed help China bypass US chip sales restrictions?

The United States limits exports of Nvidia's most advanced chips to China for national security reasons, although these restrictions also seek to preserve the American competitive advantage in artificial intelligence.

According to The New York Times, the US Government has been investigating Megaspeed's possible role in shipping Nvidia chips to China since 2024.

According to the newspaper, Singapore authorities would also have investigated the company and questioned Alice Huang in 2025.

Last year, Bloomberg News reported an open investigation in Singapore into Megaspeed for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips to China.

In December 2025, Megaspeed stated that information published by Bloomberg "contains misleading data and incorrect insinuations, including suggestions that we may have engaged in illegal chip transfers."

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