Identity of Scandal Figure Huang Le Revealed
According to Bloomberg News and The New York Times, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attended a gathering at a bar in Taipei in 2024年6月, accompanied by Huang Le, an executive of Singapore-based Megaspeed. The two were also photographed together at a tech summit in Taipei in 2024年. Reports say Huang Le is fluent in English and maintains contacts with senior AI chip industry executives, her exact whereabouts are currently unknown, and Singapore police took her in for questioning last year and restricted her from leaving the country.
How Megaspeed Rose Rapidly
After working in private equity and television news, Huang Le founded Megaspeed in 2023年, focusing on buying Nvidia GPU chips to build AI computing centers and lease computing capacity. After former U.S. President Biden imposed sweeping restrictions on exports of advanced AI chips to China, Megaspeed was spun off from Chinese gaming company Seventh Avenue, with its Singapore subsidiary controlled via a British Virgin Islands entity, Huang Le Ltd., and sold in 2023年11月 to a Singapore shell company, and was designated as an official Nvidia cloud partner days later.
Flow of Over 46億美元 in Chips Under Investigation
Trade records show Megaspeed imported Nvidia products worth more than 46億美元, about 1510億台幣, far exceeding its 2023年 cash balance. Bloomberg analysis of customs records for its Malaysia and Indonesia subsidiaries shows that before U.S. chip controls took effect, it procured more than 7400 HGX H100 servers, hundreds of GB200 NVL72 servers, more than 1.2萬片 Bianca boards and large volumes of GB300 processors, and leased computing capacity at facilities in Southeast Asia to Alibaba Group.
50,000-Chip Gap and Intelligence Allegations
U.S. officials were briefed that Huang Le is suspected of working for China's Ministry of State Security to obtain U.S. AI chip intelligence. Washington also suspects Megaspeed of smuggling chips to China and asked Nvidia to conduct an audit, with reports saying its actual chip imports exceeded those found by Nvidia in data centers by 5萬顆. It was also found that Huang Le was listed as a partner of Shanghai Hexi private equity fund in 2016年, and her holding company still held 48% as of 2025年8月. Megaspeed said it was shocked by the intelligence allegations against its former executive.