Report: Shanghai firm tied to Alice Huang moved $7.5B in Nvidia chips, incl. banned ones
RebeccaBellan · x · 2026-11-10
An investigative thread by @amir (retweeted by TechCrunch's Rebecca Bellan) reports that Alice Huang's key role is at Shanghai Century Litong, founded June 2023 and added to Nvidia's preferred cloud partner list by October, which facilitated over $7.5B in Nvidia chip shipments to China. Reporting details: Huang, her sister and her husband built a web of companies across China and Singapore to acquire Nvidia chips; when banned chips couldn't be sourced from official distributors, she stepped in citing close ties inside Nvidia; most of the 240,000 banned Nvidia chips moved into the country were linked to her.
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