Spies and silicon chips: Alice Huang’s tangled corporate web

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Megaspeed’s former director Alice Huang was this week outed as an alleged Chinese spy, accused of having an affair with Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang while digging up company…

Megaspeed scandal: Alice Huang has been accused of having an affair with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang. Photo / perla.v_food / Instagram

Singapore-based tech group Megaspeed dealt in billions of dollars’ worth of the world’s most advanced AI chips, but its office was an empty shell when AFP visited, its staff seemingly vanished long before claims of espionage landed at their door.

Megaspeed’s former director Alice Huang was this week outed as an alleged Chinese spy, accused of having an affair with Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang while digging up company secrets for Beijing.

Details about Alice Huang’s life are vague, making it almost impossible to pin down where she lives, where she works, or when she was born.

But her influence undoubtedly spreads far and wide, from the nondescript Singapore office, to hulking data centres in Southeast Asia, to the gleaming boardrooms of Silicon Valley.

Her connection to cloud computing firm Megaspeed sits at the centre of the scandal.

Megaspeed touts itself as a company at the heart of the AI revolution, using Nvidia’s advanced silicon chips to power high-performance computing inside vast data centres.

Under the guise of buying computer hardware for its Southeast Asia data hubs, Megaspeed has allegedly helped Beijing skirt trade restrictions by sending Nvidia chips into China.

Beijing has denied allegations of spying, and Megaspeed said it was investigating if it had complied with export controls on the sensitive chips.

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