{"id":970251,"date":"2026-11-14T10:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T10:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/970251\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T10:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T10:14:23","slug":"bloomberg-details-web-of-chinese-ai-companies-with-smuggled-nvidia-chips-linked-to-alice-huang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/970251\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg Details Web Of Chinese AI Companies With Smuggled NVIDIA Chips Linked To Alice Huang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subtitle\">The NVIDIA chips involved are banned in China.<\/p>\n<p>                                             &#13;<br \/>\n                                                    &#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/intro-1794574510.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2315710\/bloomberg-details-web-of-chinese-ai-companies-with-smuggled-nvidia-chips-linked-to-alice-huang\/\" data-post-id=\"2315710\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-slide-title=\"Bloomberg details web of Chinese AI companies with smuggled NVIDIA chips linked to Alice Huang: \" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"A man in a black leather jacket.\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    Sean Gallup\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese company with ties to Alice Huang procured NVIDIA AI chips banned in the country, which were then installed at a Shanghai AI facility that also has ties to Alice Huang, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-11-13\/banned-nvidia-chips-installed-at-china-data-center-linked-to-alice-huang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a>. The publication says the documents it has reviewed for its report shows explicit evidence that there&#8217;s a network of Chinese companies, which have managed to get their hands on NVIDIA chips that weren&#8217;t supposed to be sold in China, with Huang at the center.<\/p>\n<p>US officials believe that Alice Huang is a spy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2310084\/china-main-intelligence-agency-recruit-spy-targeted-nvidias-ceo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recruited by China&#8217;s main intelligence agency<\/a> to target NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. The goal was apparently to learn more about America&#8217;s AI plans and to get Jensen Huang to persuade the US government to let his company ship its more advanced chips to China. Before he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2314584\/jensen-huang-is-out-as-nvidia-ceo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stepped down as CEO of NVIDIA<\/a>, Jensen Huang reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2310336\/nvidia-is-investigating-reports-that-ceo-jensen-huang-was-the-target-of-chinese-spy-efforts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">admitted<\/a> in a staff memo that he had an affair with Alice Huang.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To the public, Alice was an executive at Singaporean company\u00a0Megaspeed, but the reports that had come out since the issue blew up paint a different picture of who she truly was. Bloomberg says the NVIDIA chips listed in the documents it reviewed were sold to\u00a0Aperia Cloud Services, an\u00a0NVIDIA Cloud Partner in Singapore. Aperia purchased\u00a022 servers from Dell containing\u00a0NVIDIA H800 chips, which are banned in China.\u00a0According to the report, Dell cut off business ties with Aperia in February 2025 due to concerns around the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg found the hardware details in filings from a company called Shanghai Longteng Intelligent Computing, which was set up by Alice a decade ago. They were documented as part of the information the company had to submit to the Chinese government, since it was using its servers as a collateral for financing. While Alice hasn&#8217;t been part of Shanghai Longteng since 2017 \u2014 and the documents didn&#8217;t say if she was personally involved in the procurement of the chips \u2014 Huang Yu, who was identified as her sister, was the one who took over as majority owner. The filings also revealed that the company&#8217;s servers included 52 units made by Super Micro Computer Inc. Those units were equipped with NVIDIA&#8217;s H100 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/china-finally-approves-the-first-batch-of-nvidia-h200-ai-gpu-imports-130000335.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">H200<\/a> chips, which can&#8217;t be sold to Chinese companies without express permission from the US government.<\/p>\n<p>The Shanghai\u00a0AI facility where the smuggled NVIDIA units were installed\u00a0is called the\u00a0Yangtze River Delta Project, which\u00a0Bloomberg says also has ties to Alice Huang. Its president is Kang Wei, who is being reported as Alice&#8217;s husband and the person <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/a-mystery-businessman-introduced-jensen-huang-to-his-paramourher-husband-1ec3b581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">who introduced her to Jensen Huang<\/a>. Alice&#8217;s company Megaspeed also presented a rendering of\u00a0the Yangtze River Delta Project to its investors in 2024 and claimed that it was its largest AI facility. Former NVIDIA-CEO Jensen Huang is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2315091\/ex-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-is-set-to-testify-before-congress-this-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">due to testify before Congress this month<\/a>, and it&#8217;s likely all of this information will be pored over by officials in the run-up to the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NVIDIA chips involved are banned in China. &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Sean Gallup\/Getty Images A Chinese company&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":970252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-970251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/970252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}