Megaspeed says Alice Huang left last year as it launches internal investigation

Show caption: Alice Huang at a dinner hosted by Nvidia's former chief exec…

AI infrastructure company at the centre of a US export-controls inquiry says it 'conducts legitimate and lawful business'

The National

November 15, 2026

• Megaspeed says Alice Huang left the company on August 30, 2025, and no longer has any role there
• The company says it has hired outside lawyers to investigate its compliance with US export controls
• Megaspeed is suspected of buying Nvidia chips for data centres in South-East Asia and sending them on to China
• The scandal led Jensen Huang to resign as Nvidia’s chief executive on Thursday, and finance chief Colette Kress is now interim chief executive

Megaspeed, the AI infrastructure company linked to the scandal that toppled Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang, has said Alice Huang left the business more than a year ago.

“Ms Alice Huang officially left Megaspeed effective August 30, 2025, and currently has no role with the company,” it said in a statement on Sunday.

The company said it “conducts legitimate and lawful business” and had “retained external legal counsel to conduct a thorough internal investigation”, including a review of its compliance with US export controls. It said media reports against it were not supported by verifiable evidence.

Megaspeed is suspected of helping Chinese companies get around US restrictions by buying Nvidia’s advanced chips for data centres in South-East Asia and routing them to China.

Singapore authorities have said servers containing advanced AI chips were shipped to Malaysia and may have been delivered elsewhere, contrary to declarations made in Singapore. Singapore police said their investigation is continuing.

Alice Huang, a businesswoman whom US investigators accuse of spying for China, was at the centre of the scandal that led to Mr Huang’s resignation on Thursday. Mr Huang had admitted he had been “unfaithful” to his wife after reports of their relationship, and Nvidia’s board opened an inquiry into whether he was the target of a foreign intelligence operation.

China has denied the spying allegations.

Nvidia’s chief financial officer, Colette Kress, has taken over as interim chief executive while the board searches for a permanent successor.

The fall-out has intensified scrutiny in Washington of how advanced chips reach China, with politicians from both main parties calling for tighter export controls.

Nvidia reports quarterly results on Tuesday, its first since Mr Huang’s departure.

Updated:

November 15, 2026, 2:50 PM