Bloomberg: ‘Nvidia Intervened in U.S. Probe of Megaspeed Chip Smuggling’
Mackenzie Hawkins, reporting yesterday for Bloomberg: Despite that stance, in the months after Teter’s initial call with Kessler, Nvidia gave BIS an incomplete account of its business with Megaspeed. After several visits to Megaspeed’s data centers — 12 facilities owned by eight companies across three countries in Southeast Asia — Nvidia had sent inventory checks to the agency and declared to…
According to Bloomberg, Nvidia intervened in a U.S. investigation into chip smuggling involving Megaspeed. Despite initially cooperating, the company provided an incomplete account of its dealings with Megaspeed after multiple visits to the company's data centers in Southeast Asia. Nvidia had sent inventory checks to the U.S. government and declared to Bloomberg News in mid-November 2025 that everything was in order.
However, the company's tabulations, as relayed to the U.S. government, undercounted the number of chips sold to Megaspeed by 50,000 units, which is worth billions of dollars. When asked about the discrepancy, Nvidia stated in December 2025 that it had checked additional Megaspeed warehouses and found the missing hardware, but declined to provide further details.
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