The chairs of the House committees on China, foreign affairs and intelligence, John Moolenaar, Brian Mast and Rick Crawford, wrote to Huang that the reports "raise significant national security concerns regarding the People's Republic of China's access to sensitive US technology and information." They want him to present Nvidia's security protocols against foreign adversary espionage. According to Ars Technica, Nvidia would not say whether Huang will appear.
At the center of the reports is Alice Huang, an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based cloud company that has bought billions of dollars of Nvidia chips. According to TechCrunch, a memo circulated this year, reportedly based on US intelligence, claims China's Ministry of State Security recruited her to spy on Nvidia's CEO. The two are not related.
Nvidia rejects the claims: "Meetings with customers are part of a CEO's job," and its regional cloud customers "receive ordinary business information—not sensitive Nvidia trade secrets—and zero information relevant to national security." Megaspeed was previously scrutinized in the US for possible chip smuggling, though no charges followed, and according to Ars Technica, Nvidia's unannounced inspections at its Singapore sites found no chips diverted to China.
