Megaspeed and the battle to go high-end Nvidia chips into China
Jensen Huang's affair with a suspected Chinese spy has shone a light on Megaspeed, the company she worked for. It is under investigation in the US for smuggling Nvidia chips into China, which it denies.
Nvidia, a global tech giant, is facing scrutiny over claims that its CEO, Jensen Huang, had a romantic relationship with an alleged Chinese spy. Megaspeed, a smaller company, is one of the many entities under investigation for potentially violating US export controls to divert Nvidia chips into China. Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data center and AI computing firm, is an Nvidia cloud partner, providing computing power and services for Nvidia's GPU products, which are in high demand for AI applications.
The US government has strict export controls to prevent Nvidia's high-performance chips from reaching China, while still allowing the rental of data centers with Nvidia chips to Chinese companies like Alibaba. Megaspeed, founded in 2015, has been accused of breaching these controls and is being investigated by both the US government and Singapore police.
The company denies any wrongdoing, stating that it operates within all applicable export control regulations.
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