Megaspeed says Alice Huang left company in 2025, denies wrongdoing

The Singapore-based company at the center of the scandal that brought down Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Sunday that suspected Chinese spy Alice Huang left the company in 2025. It also denied any wrongdoing, saying it "conducts legitimate and lawful business."

In a statement to CBS News, Megaspeed International confirmed Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, left the company in August 2025 and has no current role. The company declined to comment on the allegations that Alice Huang is a suspected Chinese spy.

Investigation Details

Alice Huang was an executive at Megaspeed and is the woman with whom Jensen Huang was having an affair. She is suspected by U.S. intelligence of being an asset of China's Ministry of State Security, which China denies. Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia's CEO last week.

U.S. investigators say Alice Huang used industry contacts and a series of shell companies to access 240,000 chips banned for export into China. In the past three years, Megaspeed has been one of Nvidia's biggest foreign customers, purchasing nearly $5 billion in AI chips and advanced hardware.

Megaspeed does not comment on Ms. Huang's personal and private matters.

Global Response

The company, which began as an offshoot of a China-based gaming firm, is now under investigation in the U.S. and Singapore for allegedly smuggling Nvidia's restricted AI computer chips into China. President Trump said last week the FBI was investigating the romantic and business ties between Jensen Huang and Alice Huang, who are not related.

CBS News reported that Singaporean authorities seized Alice Huang's passport in June 2025 while trying to engage the U.S. government to support their investigation. The source added that the Singaporean government received no meaningful help from Washington at the time.

Megaspeed maintained that recent assertions about its business are "not supported by verifiable evidence" and that it complies with all applicable laws and regulatory regimes, including U.S. export control requirements.