Woman at center of Nvidia spy scandal
The gist
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told employees he had a romantic relationship with a suspected Chinese spy and apologized.
The affair puts the $4.5 trillion chipmaker's China business and U.S. scrutiny in focus.
How it unfolded
- Mar 2023 to Nov 2023Alice Huang was a director at Singapore-based Megaspeed International, per Singapore corporate records.
- 2023Megaspeed became an official Nvidia Cloud Partner, per Bloomberg.
- Nov 2023Megaspeed was bought by a company called Swiftdata; Alice Huang and another director, Cang Yang, soon resigned.
Key terms
- Computex
- An annual computer and technology trade show held in Taipei, Taiwan, and one of the world's largest.
- semiconductors
- A material whose electrical conductivity lies between that of a conductor and an insulator, used to make microchips and processors.
Source: Wikipedia