Who Is Alice Huang? Alleged Chinese Spy Linked To Nvidia's Jensen Huang And USD 4.8 Billion Chip Row
Alice Huang's controversy with Jensen Huang involved an alleged affair and a large-scale advanced chip purchase from his company.
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Add BollywoodShaadis on GoogleNvidia Corp's Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang recently admitted that he cheated on his wife, Lori Huang. Although he didn't name whom he engaged in infidelity with, reports claim that it was with Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang. Notably, the issue blew up when she was accused of being a Chinese spy and having used her connection with Jensen to gather confidential information, which his company is currently investigating.
Meet Alice Huang, the woman accused of having an affair with Jensen Huang
Alice Huang (also known as Huang Le) is a Chinese citizen and a former executive at Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed International. She has recently generated immense buzz online and has come under intense media scrutiny after reports claimed that she was the woman with whom Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had been cheating on his wife of four decades, Lori Huang.
Notably, Alice coincidentally shares the same surname as Jensen, and they are not related in any way. According to a profile attributed to her in a Chinese private-fund database, she worked as a reporter at Hunan TV and state broadcaster CCTV, then at HSBC, where she was listed as an assistant to the president of its private banking division, and later as a vice president at CITIC Securities.
However, The New York Post asked a Hunan TV executive about Alice Huang, and he replied that he had never heard of her. Additionally, her profile on CCTV's website also could not be found. As for Alice's current venture, she is reportedly associated with a Singapore company called 7Road International, with roots in Chinese mobile gaming.
The company changed its name to Megaspeed in March 2023, when she was appointed managing director. Ownership passed to Huang Le Limited that month and to a newly incorporated company called Swiftdata in November of the same year. Just a month later, she was spotted in public with Jensen Huang.
In June 2024, she was seen in a photo, sitting beside the Nvidia chief at a bar in Taipei, drinking whisky with executives from Gigabyte and NetThunder. The image appeared on LinkedIn, and after about a year, the link-up buzz was rekindled due to the duo's another public appearance. In May 2025, after a dinner with AI suppliers, Alice Huang stood behind Jensen outside a Taipei restaurant as he spoke to reporters.
By then, Alice Huang's company, Megaspeed was reportedly advancing Nvidia equipment on a large scale. As it came to the notice of US officials, they felt that she got involved in an affair with a married Jensen Huang and was using him for the wrong reasons. Outlets like The New York Times alleged that she acted as a Chinese intelligence operative.
According to alleged leaked US intelligence memos, China's Ministry of State Security allegedly recruited Alice Huang as a spy to target Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, gather confidential intel from him, and send it to Beijing.
What is the USD 4.8 billion chip controversy about?
A classified memo, described by the Times and the Financial Times claimed that Alice's mission was to gather intelligence on Nvidia's chief and potentially influence the company's push to sell its most advanced chips to China. Alice didn't respond to the allegations, but the Ministry of Home Affairs denied that Alice Huang was a Chinese intelligence source.
Beijing's embassy called the allegations "groundless smears and slanders." Just months after Alice and Jensen's first high-profile public sightings at a Taipei bar, her company bought USD 4.8 billion's worth of Nvidia chips. In late 2024, US Commerce Department officials inspected Megaspeed's Malaysian facilities and found advanced Nvidia chips still sitting unopened in their original boxes.
That sparked federal suspicions regarding the chips being physically diverted and smuggled into mainland China. Notably, nothing has been proven yet, and an investigation into the issue is ongoing.
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