By 台北時報
Publication Date: 2026-10-30 16:00:00
Beijing yesterday dismissed as “groundless speculation” a report that said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) was the target of a Chinese spy plot.
The article by the New York Times, published on Thursday, said that US intelligence officials concluded that a Chinese executive linked to a Singapore-based data center company had been funneling information to Beijing.
“The report in question is based on groundless speculation and is nothing more than an attempt to smear China,” Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Guo Jiakun (郭嘉昆) told a regular briefing.
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China is in a race for tech dominance with the US, which restricts the export to China of the most cutting-edge silicon chips, designed by industry leader Nvidia and used to train and run artificial intelligence (AI) models.
The data center firm Megaspeed was under scrutiny for possibly steering Nvidia AI chips to China, the report said, citing unnamed sources briefed on the matter.
However, the executive Alice Huang — also known as Huang Le (黃樂), and no relation to 63-year-old Taiwanese-born Jensen Huang — developed a close relationship with the Nvidia boss, the New York Times said.
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