Story: Alice Huang allegedly routed $4.8B of Nvidia AI hardware through Singapore, bypassing US chip embargo
PolarBearby · x · 2026-11-10
- A long-form thread tells the (unverified) story of Alice Huang, a former Chinese TV reporter turned managing director of Megaspeed, a Singapore data center startup spun out of Chinese mobile gaming firm 7Road.
- After striking up a rapport with Jensen Huang at a Taipei whiskey bar during Computex in June 2024, she allegedly moved $4.8 billion of Nvidia AI hardware through a Singapore entity in about 20 months, circumventing the US chip embargo.
- Unverified narrative, but a notable datapoint on how export controls are being bypassed in the compute supply chain.
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