Huang Renxun’s extramarital affair partner is suspected of being a Chinese spy. The New York Times unraveled Huang Le’s business history and entered Nvidia from the Shanghai financial circle.

CEO of NvidiaJen-Hsun Huang On the 8th, he admitted that he had worked with people identified by US officials as Chinesedetective Huang Le, a senior Megaspeed executive, was having an extramarital affair. However, details such as when the two met and when Huang Le may have been recruited by Chinese intelligence agencies remain unclear. A party in Singapore in December 2023 revealed that the relationship between the two was longer than previously known, an investigation by The New York Times revealed.

The New York Times reported that Huang Le has been active in the Shanghai financial circle for many years and is good at networking with senior executives in the US and Chinese technology industries. He also has a close relationship with his business partner Kang Wei. People familiar with the matter revealed that Congwei was introduced to Chinese investors and MegaSpeed ​​employees as Huang Le’s husband, but The New York Times could not confirm whether the two were married. Kang Wei once showed Huang Le’s relationship with Huang Renxun and used this network to raise funds for his businesses.

According to Huang Le’s online resume, he worked as a television reporter for four years, and then worked in the private banking department of HSBC and CITIC Securities. The earliest corporate records in which his name appears are from 2010. By 2020, Huang Le and Kang Wei were already well-known in some investment areas of Shanghai. The two made acquisitions and investments through the corporate network, and assisted Tencent in building and operating an AI computing center in Shanghai, paving the way for Huang Le to go abroad to obtain key chips.

The US government will begin restricting the sale of advanced AI chips to China in late 2022. If companies want to obtain the chips, they must be registered outside China and cannot have ownership ties that point clearly to China. In 2023, Huang Le acquired the Singapore subsidiary of 7Road, an online gaming company belonging to his Shanghai corporate network, through a British Virgin Islands company and renamed it MegaSpeed, his first large-scale entry into the chip sector.

Behind MegaSpeed ​​is a network of wealthy Chinese technology investors with ties to China’s domestic data centers, government and defense industries. Singapore records show that Megaspeed was later transferred to a Singapore shell company in 2023. Only four days after the ownership change, it was selected as a HUDA Cloud partner and was able to obtain advanced chips. People familiar with the matter revealed that after the equity transfer, Huang Le still controlled the daily operations of the company.

In December 2023, Huang Le met with Huang Renxun and several colleagues at an Italian restaurant in Singapore. A photo confirmed by The New York Times shows Huang Le posing next to a smiling Huang, who is wearing his signature black leather jacket.

After this meeting, Huang Le gradually entered the technology circle based on his contacts in the financial community of Shanghai, and cooperated with Congwei to make Megaspeed an important channel for obtaining Huida technology. Between 2024 and 2026, MegaSpeed ​​will purchase Huida’s advanced AI technology worth billions of dollars, which will also bring Huang Le and Huang Renxun closer. Social media photos reviewed by The New York Times show the two met over the past three years in Shanghai, Huida’s Silicon Valley headquarters in California, a golf resort south of San Jose, and Taiwan.

In June 2024, Huang Le demonstrated to a group of senior executives at a technology event in Taipei that he could contact Huang Renxun directly. It was just after midnight, and he offered to invite Jen-Hsun Huang to visit.

Parker Schmidt, CEO of data software provider NetThunder, who was present, recalled: “He said, ‘I bet you, I can get Jen-Hsun Huang here,’ and then Jen-Hsun Huang came over immediately.” Shortly afterwards Jen-Hsun Huang arrived and drank a small glass of whiskey with everyone. However, a person close to Huida said Huang was traveling with two other senior Huida officials and had originally planned to join the party.

Schmidt said Huang Le posted a large number of photos with Huang Renxun on social media, including photos of the two of them drinking red wine on a golf course and in a restaurant. He believes that Huang Le hopes that the outside world will see him as an excellent business executive, and in the technology industry, “It is a matter of pride to take a photo with Huang Renxun.”

In the same month, MegaSpeed ​​began receiving HUDA’s most advanced AI chips in large quantities, eventually receiving more than $4 billion worth of chips. The large-scale purchase attracted the attention of US officials and the Commerce Department sent personnel to inspect MegaSpeed’s data center in late 2024.

A person familiar with the matter revealed that in 2024, at the suggestion of the US government, Taiwanese authorities began monitoring Huang Le’s travels to Taiwan, which he entered with a Hong Kong passport, including his public appearances with Huang Renxun. The New York Times analyzed photos of the meeting and found that Huang Le and other senior officials visited Huang Renxun at Huida’s office in March 2025. Two months later, he had dinner with her and others in Taipei and kissed Huang Renxun on the cheek during a group photo.

Singapore authorities also began investigating Megaspeed. A person familiar with the investigation revealed that Huang Le was banned from leaving the country in 2025 and called in for questioning due to an investigation into false import declarations. However, the investigation against him was closed due to insufficient evidence.

Singapore authorities said they were still investigating MegaSpeed. Huang Le then flew to Shanghai, and MegaSpeed ​​began appointing a new supervisor to direct employees, a person familiar with the company said.