Key Facts

• The committee chairs who wrote to Huang lead the House committees on China, foreign affairs, and intelligence.
• The lawmakers want Huang to explain Nvidia’s security measures against foreign espionage and address risks to U.S. national security.
• The New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence officials believed Huang was targeted by a Chinese spying operation.
• The concerns involve Alice Huang, an executive at Megaspeed, which has bought billions of dollars’ worth of Nvidia chips.
• Nvidia said Huang meets thousands of customer executives and that regional cloud customers do not receive sensitive trade secrets or national security information.
• Nvidia conducted unannounced on-site inspections at Megaspeed in Singapore and found no evidence of chip diversion to China, according to people familiar with the review.
• The article says the U.S. previously scrutinized Megaspeed over possible chip smuggling, but no charges followed.
• Wally Liaw, a Supermicro co-founder, was arrested and charged in the U.S. with smuggling Nvidia chips to China; he pleaded not guilty and denies wrongdoing.