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Huang Zhen-hsun first defended her close relationship with Huang Le as normal and later admitted to having an extramarital affair. At the same time, HUIDA has been investigated by US National Security and Congress due to suspicions about MegaSpeed and the flow of chips, and the board of directors has launched an investigation.
For more than a year, NvidiaHuida (also known as Nvidia) is demoting its CEOJen-Hsun Huang Transactions with Singapore-based cloud provider MegaSpeed and its former director Alice Huang. MegaSpeed was spun off from a Chinese gaming company and was helped to be founded by Huang Lezheng.
The US government is concerned that Beijing could obtain advanced chips through the Singapore company. Both Huida and Huang Renxun said that although MegaSpeed purchased large quantities of Huida’s AI chips, the purchases were not illegal. Regarding reports of exchanges between Huang Renxun and Huang Le, both said that they were official transactions.
Over the past two weeks, Huang has defended himself, describing their interactions as “completely normal” despite reports of their close relationship.
Therefore, it is even more shocking that Jen-Hsun Huang finally admitted that he was unfaithful to his wife of more than 40 years. According to media reports, US officials suspect that Huang Le was recruited by China’s intelligence agencies. Huida said Sunday that its board was investigating whether Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence operation. Huang Renxun is the representative figure of this wave of AI infrastructure construction boom, and Huida, which is at the top, is one of the largest companies in the world in terms of market capitalization. Now that the inside story has been revealed, his future becomes unpredictable.
From taipei bar to chip flow probe
The relationship between Huang Renxun and Huang Le can be traced back to 2024. The New York Times reported in October 2025 that Huang Le had made a bet to find Huang Renxun at a gathering with a group of technology industry executives at a bar in Taipei a year earlier. The New York Times said that immediately after contacting Huang Renxun, he came over and drank a small glass of whiskey with everyone.
A Huida spokesperson responded at the time that Huida’s business team often entertains clients and partners during meetings. When Huang Renxun is free, the team sometimes invites him to talk about the current market situation.
Bloomberg reported in December that the U.S. government had begun investigating MegaSpeed’s ownership structure and whether the company transferred Huida chips to China. MegaSpeed is a new cloud provider that rents computing power to customers to perform AI calculations. If the smuggling is true, it would be a serious violation of export controls imposed by the United States to restrict the development of China’s AI and military capabilities. Bloomberg reports that US investigators are particularly concerned about Huang Le and his role in MegaSpeed.
Huida also defended the trade deal between the two sides at the time. A Huida spokesperson said an internal review found no evidence that MegaSpeed transferred the chips and confirmed that the company is entirely owned and operated outside China and has no Chinese shareholders. A spokesperson said MegaSpeed provides “cloud services permitted under export control regulations”.
Megaspeed has denied wrongdoing. Huida said he asked officials in Washington whether he needed to close the transaction with MegaSpeed, and received a response that it was not necessary. A HUIDA spokesperson said at the time that since the law is clearly written, US companies will operate in accordance with existing law. How the critics want to make the law is a different matter.
HUIDA seeks to ease export restrictions in Washington
On the one hand, HUIDA responded to the outside world’s doubts about MegaSpeed, and on the other hand, it also fought for Washington to relax export controls on popular AI chips. The US government will gradually tighten controls from 2022 to prevent China from buying advanced AI chips, causing Huida to lose an important market for its high-end products.
After Trump returns to the White House in early 2025, Huang Renxun urged the new government to allow Huida to sell some AI chips to Chinese customers. He has established a close relationship with Trump, often appearing together in public, and has also traveled with Trump to the Middle East and the United Kingdom. This lobbying yielded results and Trump decided to allow Huida’s previous generation H200 chips to be sold to China in late 2025.
Last month, The New York Times revealed that US officials had identified Huang Le as a member of the Chinese intelligence service and had listed Huang as a target and established close ties with him. After the New York Times published the report on October 29, Huang Renxun said in an interview with Bloomberg that his conversation with Huang Le was similar to his normal interactions with Chinese customers and business executives. He also said that Huang Le has left Megaspeed.
Jen-Hsun Huang said at the time: “Our relationships and behavior are all related to megaspeed. Everything is normal and nothing is abnormal.” He also said that the US government had not informed him of its suspicions about Huang Le.
