New twist in the scandal of the fallen boss of Nvidia: chips from the American company were smuggled into China, via a company founded by Alice Huang, the ex-mistress of Jensen Huang.
According to Bloomberg, these chips operate in a data center in Shanghai, some servers of which were originally sold to Aperia Cloud Services, a business partner of Nvidia based in Singapore.
But these servers didn’t stay in the Southeast Asian city-state. They passed through Megaspeed, a company founded by Alice Huang, to cross illegally into China, which tends to confirm the accusations made by American intelligence.
Jensen Huang, the charismatic American-Taiwanese boss of the flagship company of the artificial intelligence revolution, was forced to resign from Nvidia on Thursday, swept away by the scandal of his extramarital affairs, including his affair with Alice Huang.
Beijing categorically denied having entrusted Alice Huang with a espionage operation and reiterated on Friday that it was opposed to possible new American restrictions on chip sales to China.
