Alice Huang Network Helped China Access to Nvidia Chips

[ABS News Service/11.11.2026]

· Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's affair with a Chinese businesswoman alleged to be a spy for Beijing facilitated the shipment of at least $7.5 billion worth of the company's chips to Chinese firms, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing two people who know her, Reuters news service reported.

Alice Huang, along with her husband and sister, built a network of companies across China and Singapore to acquire Nvidia chips, according to the report. Alice Huang and Jensen Huang are not related. At the center of the network was Shanghai Century Litong, a China-based company founded in June 2023 that secured preferred cloud partner status with Nvidia by October, giving it priority access to the company's chips, The Information reported.

Century Litong was initially linked to Alice Huang's sister, Huang Yu, through a founding shareholder that was ultimately controlled by Huang Yu before exiting the company in 2024, according to the report. When orders for Nvidia chips subject to US export restrictions stalled, Alice Huang used ties to Nvidia and its distributors to secure supplies, helping move about 240,000 H100, H200 and some A100 chips into China, the report said.

Alice Huang also held an executive position at Singapore-registered Megaspeed, which was linked to Century Litong and has been investigated by US authorities over Nvidia chip shipments from Southeast Asia to China, the report said. Megaspeed obtained Nvidia chips by renting computing capacity from Southeast Asian data centers to Chinese customers or by physically shipping hardware into China.

Reuters news service reported that Microsoft has been pressing the Trump Administration to halt plans to bar Chinese imports of a key component used in AI data centers, three people familiar with the situation said.

Reuters reported in August that the Trump administration wants to ban US imports of new models of Chinese optical transceivers, which allow data to travel over fiber-optic cables at the speed of light within data centers. The concern is that they could be used by Beijing to steal data, install malware or disrupt service at US data centers.

Microsoft has 35 data centers under construction in the United States and another 134 planned, according to Cleanview, a market intelligence company which tracks data center development. It is one of a group of companies and trade groups making the case to the Trump administration that such a ban could irreparably damage the US edge over China in the AI race by further slowing the data center rollout, the sources said.

The cloud and software company was one of a handful of firms that met with officials from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Security Council in September to flag the supply chain challenges that any such ban would present, two of the sources said.

The Federal Communications Commission, which oversees the US telecom industry, is working on the ban.

The efforts by Microsoft and other firms, which have not been previously reported, show how the agency's deliberations have set off alarms in an industry scrambling to meet surging demand for cloud and AI services despite a growing backlash by consumers over rising energy costs and water use.

Microsoft declined to comment. The White House, the FCC and the Chinese embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to requests for comment.