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CBS reported that Singapore detained Huang Le and Megaspeed’s passports for eight months to investigate the suspicious transfer of Huida chip servers to China, and asked for help from the United States, but received no effective assistance.
Founder of NvidiaJen-Hsun Huang Huang Le, former CEO of MegaSpeed, resigned from all positions due to his involvement in the extramarital affair scandal. Huang Le was the main person in this incident. CBS News reported on the 13th,Singapore The authorities once seized Huang LePassport For eight months, it tried to seek assistance from the US government to investigate whether Huida’s advanced chips could be shipped to China. However, a person familiar with the matter revealed that Sing Kwok received no meaningful assistance from Washington during this period.
Xingguo is investigating whether Huang Le and MegaSpeed have cooperated with California-based Supermicro (Supermicro) since February 2025 to send computer servers equipped with Huida’s advanced chips to China, the person said. The investigation focused on whether MegaSpeed’s then-CEO Huang Le lied about details of purchasing servers, potentially violating Singapore law.
The person said Huang Le flew to Singapore in June 2025 and voluntarily accepted interviews with Singapore-based investigators from the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). Xingguo police also interrogated Huang Le on the same day and decided to confiscate his passport. But as of February 2026, the Singapore Police had not filed any criminal charges against him, so the passport could only be returned. However, authorities determined that he had provided “false information” in an attempt to minimize his role in MegaSpeed, and so he was permanently banned from re-entering Singapore.
Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs said on the 12th that the US Bureau of Industry and Security conducted a voluntary post-shipment inspection of Megaspeed on June 24, 2025. Huang Le was also present to confirm whether the product was delivered to the declared recipient. To clarify the ultimate fate of the servers, Singapore police asked for information from Supermicro, but the company provided only “limited cooperation.” Singapore Police and the Attorney General’s Office therefore sought assistance from US authorities in hopes of assisting Super Micro in their investigation. Since September of the same year, the police “have made numerous requests to the US Department of Justice and the FBI.”
The first source revealed that Washington officials “reacted negatively” to Singapore’s request for assistance and have yet to provide any concrete assistance. A second source also confirmed that Washington has not responded meaningfully to requests for investigative assistance. He said it would be “helpful” to obtain export information reported by Supermicro to complete the MegaSpeed order to confirm whether the products were registered for shipment to Malaysia and whether some or all of them were actually “shipped elsewhere” such as China.
The source also revealed that the servers were believed to have been shipped to Malaysia, and that Singapore investigators suspect that “some or all” of them may have later been transferred to China. MegaSpeed has denied any wrongdoing. On the other hand, The New York Times reported on the 11th that Malaysia placed Huida chips on its own territory, installed them in local data centers, and then actually leased the use rights of the data centers to China, instead of sending the chips to China.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on the 13th that there was “no indication” that any chips related to the Huida and MegaSpeed incidents had been re-exported overseas.
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Since February 2025, Sing Kwok has been investigating whether Huang Le and MegaSpeed were involved in collaborating with Super Micro to send servers equipped with Huida’s advanced chips to China. He also suspected that she might give false information to the authorities, so he first confiscated her passport to cooperate with the investigation.
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Since September 2025, the Singapore Police and the Attorney General’s Office have repeatedly sought help from the US Department of Justice, the FBI and the Bureau of Industry and Security of the Commerce Department, prompting Super Micro to cooperate in providing export information. However, people familiar with the matter said Washington responded negatively and did not provide sufficient assistance.
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As of February 2026, Singapore had not filed criminal charges against Huang Le and could only return his passport. However, it has permanently banned him from entering the country after it was determined that he had downplayed his role in Megaspeed and that his confession was false. The crux of the dispute is whether the chip servers were transferred to China via Malaysia.
