Nvidia’s Megaspeed ties show potential blind spots in the U.S. effort to block China from accessing advanced chips Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s business meetings are routine practice and existing U.S. export controls largely miss the cloud, experts say If there’s one issue that continues to cloud over Nvidia, it’s how the company’s chips continue to end up in China’s hands despite a years-long effort by the U.S. to stop that. A New York Times story published Thursday — alleging that U.S. authorities were concerned about a Chinese spy plot targeting Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — has brought that issue to the limelight once again. The report said U.S. intelligence was surveilling Alice Huang, or Huang Le**,** for being a Chinese intelligence asset while she led Megaspeed, a Singaporean cloud-computing company.
For several months, Megaspeed has been the subject of published reports about alleged contravention of U.S. export controls involving the highest-powered Nvidia chips. Steven Goldstein is based in London and responsible for MarketWatch's coverage of financial markets in Europe, with a particular focus on global macro and commodities. Previously, he was Washington bureau chief, directing MarketWatch's economic, political and regulatory coverage.
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