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Huang Le was a director of Singapore-based MegaSpeed, which was involved in using data centers in Southeast Asia as a cover to transship Huida chips, and whose offices in Singapore and Malaysia are now vacant.
Former CEO of HUIDAJen-Hsun Huang The fraud partner is suspected to be from Chinadetective Served as Huang LeSingapore Director of technology conglomerate MegaSpeed, which once owned billions of dollars worth of Huida AI chips. However, AFP found that the offices of Megaspeed and its Malaysian subsidiary were vacant.
An AFP reporter visited Megaspeed’s office and found it empty; It appears that the company’s employees had disappeared long before the espionage allegations surfaced against them.
Former MegaSpeed director Alice Huang is suspected of being a Chinese spy and is accused of spying NVIDIA company secrets for Beijing during an extramarital affair with Zhen-Hsun Huang.
Huang Le’s personal information is quite vague, making it almost impossible to determine where she lives, where she works, or when she was born.
Yet, their influence undoubtedly extends far and wide, from modest offices in Singapore to vast Southeast Asian data centers to the glamor of Silicon Valley corporate boardrooms.
His relationship with cloud computing company MegaSpeed is at the center of the scandal.
MegaSpeed claims to be a key company in the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, using Huida’s advanced chips to support high-performance computing in large data centers; However, the company has also been investigated for allegedly engaging in trading with ulterior motives.
According to the allegations, MegaSpeed sent Huida chips to China under the guise of purchasing computer hardware for its Southeast Asian data centers to help Beijing avoid trade sanctions.
At MegaSpeed’s office in the heart of Singapore’s business district, the glass door is closed and no employees are visible inside. Neighbors told AFP they had not seen anyone coming or going in the past few months.
In Johor, Malaysia, the office of Speedmatrix, a subsidiary of MegaSpeed, located in a shopping mall in a newly developed community, also had no employees.
Company registration information shows that Huang Le was directly involved in the creation of Megaspeed.
According to the information, a company associated with them acquired 7Road International, the Singapore subsidiary of Chinese game developer 7Road, in early 2023 and changed its name to MegaSpeed International.
Huang Le has been registered as a director of Megaspeed for less than a year and his tenure is from March to November 2023.
She joined the company at a time when MegaSpeed’s operations were undergoing drastic changes, taking the company from an unknown game developer to one of the largest buyers of Hyuda chips in Asia.
According to the company’s 2024 financial report, MegaSpeed’s revenue grew from zero to nearly $300 million in 12 months.
