There is some serious tension in the Trump administration after claims that NVIDIA chips, meant for Southeast Asia, ended up in China through a company called Megaspeed.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is frustrated about the slow response to blacklisting Megaspeed, and things got even messier when media linked Megaspeed's former director, Alice Huang, to Chinese intelligence.
NVIDIA probe, chairs ask Alice Huang
Megaspeed is accused of rerouting more than $4 billion worth of NVIDIA chips into China, raising questions about how closely NVIDIA checks where its tech actually goes.
Now, NVIDIA's board has said it will investigate the matter, and three committee chairs in the US Congress have asked Huang to attend a closed-door briefing on November 18.
The big question: how well are US companies really keeping high-tech gear out of the wrong hands?