Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang summoned by Congress over Chinese espionage concerns
House committee chairs want Huang to brief them on November 18 about his ties to an alleged Chinese intelligence target.
Republican lawmakers have asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to appear before Congress after reports that U.S. intelligence officials believe he has been targeted by a Chinese spying operation. The chairs of the House committees on China, foreign affairs, and intelligence asked him to attend a closed-door joint briefing on November 18.
The concerns center on a Chinese woman named Alice Huang, an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based cloud company that has bought billions of dollars of Nvidia's chips. Megaspeed was founded in 2023 as a spin-off from a Chinese gaming company, and the U.S. previously looked into it for possible chip smuggling, though no charges followed.
Nvidia has rejected the claims. The company said meetings with customers are part of a CEO's job, that its regional cloud customers receive ordinary business information, and that Huang is protected by an outstanding security team. Nvidia also ran its own on-site inspections at Megaspeed in Singapore, and its internal probe found no evidence of its chips being misused. The company did not say whether Huang would appear before Congress.
Key points
- House chairs on China, foreign affairs, and intelligence asked Huang to brief them on November 18.
- U.S. intelligence reportedly believes Huang was targeted by a Chinese spy operation.
- The focus is Singapore-based Megaspeed, a major buyer of Nvidia chips.
- Nvidia denies the claims and says its security measures are strong.
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