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A group photo at a Taipei bar in 2024 and footage outside a restaurant a year later offer two rare public glimpses of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang alongside Alice Huang, an executive at one of the chipmaker’s customers. Now Nvidia is investigating reports that its chief executive may have been the target of a foreign intelligence operation.
The company’s board announced the independent review Sunday, the same day Jensen Huang told employees he had been unfaithful to his wife and apologized to his family and colleagues. His memo did not identify the other person. He pledged to cooperate with the review and will remain CEO.
The New York Times reported in late October that U.S. intelligence officials believed Alice Huang had developed a close relationship with the Nvidia chief and passed information to Beijing. China’s embassy in Washington rejected the spying allegations. Nvidia’s board said it had seen no reason to believe that company secrets or U.S. national security had been compromised. Independent directors will oversee the inquiry with help from outside lawyers.
Who is Alice Huang?
Singapore corporate records identify her as Huang Le, a Chinese national who became a director and managing director of Megaspeed International in March 2023 and resigned from both posts that November, Business Insider reported. Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data center company, buys Nvidia chips. Alice Huang and Jensen Huang are unrelated.
It is unclear when the two first met. The 2024 photo, posted during the Computex trade show, shows them with other tech executives. Taiwanese media footage in May 2025 also showed them leaving a Taipei restaurant with a group. In an interview with Bloomberg last week, Jensen Huang described his contacts with Alice Huang as routine business dealings tied to Megaspeed.
A separate investigation into Megaspeed
U.S. authorities have examined whether Megaspeed and a Malaysian affiliate helped Chinese companies obtain advanced Nvidia chips despite U.S. export restrictions, according to reporting by The New York Times cited by Business Insider. Singapore police confirmed that their investigation into Megaspeed was ongoing. Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs said authorities there had not investigated Alice Huang over alleged ties to Chinese intelligence or her relationship with Nvidia’s CEO.
Nvidia’s chips power many of the data centers that train and run AI systems. Washington has restricted China’s access to some of the most advanced processors. That puts two distinct questions in focus: whether restricted chips reached buyers in China and whether anyone gained access to sensitive information through Nvidia’s chief executive.
*Source: Buisness Insider
