英伟达董事会调查黄仁勋间谍传闻

Nvidia, with a market value of $4.5 trillion, saw its board spend the weekend dealing with a possible foreign espionage operation targeting its CEO.

The board said it is investigating reports that Jensen Huang became a target of foreign intelligence activity.

On the same day, Jensen Huang apologized to employees, admitting he was unfaithful to his wife.

He said, 'There is no excuse for what I did.'

The board then stated there was no reason to believe Nvidia's trade secrets or national security were harmed as a result, and expressed confidence in Huang's leadership.

The company sits at the very center of the AI computing power supply chain.

Another person drawn into the reports is Alice Huang, a Chinese citizen with no family relation to Jensen Huang.

She once served as an executive at Singapore data center firm Megaspeed, one of the highest-ranking people in the company.

U.S. officials concluded last year that while she worked with Nvidia to build data centers in Asia, she passed information to the Chinese government.

The Chinese Embassy in Washington denied the espionage allegations.

Megaspeed was spun off from a Chinese company in 2023 and subsequently built data centers across Southeast Asia on a large scale.

The company has a partnership with Nvidia and thus came into the view of U.S. regulators.

The U.S. Commerce Department and Justice Department have investigated Megaspeed and its possible ties to the Chinese government for more than a year.

Authorities in Singapore and Taiwan are equally concerned about Alice Huang's ties to China.

At the end of 2024, as relevant authorities began surveilling her, she departed for China.

Megaspeed previously said it is a compliant and lawful company.

Washington's reaction to this matter has not been uniform.

Asked on Sunday whether Jensen Huang should continue as CEO, Trump's answer was, 'I think so, oh yeah, sure.'

He also said Huang is a respectable person.

Congress's tone was much sharper.

Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn wrote on social media that congressional oversight investigation is needed.

Previously, three House Republicans had already called for Huang to brief Congress.

As arranged, the board's investigation is led by a committee of independent directors, with outside lawyers hired to assist.

So pressure comes from several directions at once: regulatory investigations, congressional questioning, and the board's scrutiny of the CEO.

Chip exports, Asian data centers, and the private relationships of the company's top leadership—these threads are now tangled together.

The board's conclusion will determine whether this storm stays at the level of corporate governance or extends further toward national security.