Megaspeed, the Singapore-headquartered data center company at the center of the scandal engulfing Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, said Thursday it will cooperate with U.S. investigations into potential risks to national security. In its first statement since reports emerged about Huang's affair with a Chinese woman who had held a senior position at the company, Megaspeed said it takes its obligation to comply with U.S. export control laws "extremely seriously." The statement was signed by its chairman and CEO, Tan Yong Pong, also known as James Tan.

The woman, Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, was described by U.S. intelligence agencies as a Chinese intelligence operative, according to NBC News, and the New York Times reported she was a top executive at Megaspeed. Megaspeed, which prominently touts a partnership with Nvidia on its website, was one of Nvidia's biggest customers in Southeast Asia. The company is under U.S. criminal investigation for allegedly smuggling American-made chips into China in defiance of export controls, an allegation it faced last year and answered in December by saying there was "no evidence" of such exports. Singapore has also said it is investigating such allegations. Megaspeed did not address the allegations about Alice Huang directly, but said it had retained a leading U.S. law firm to lead a comprehensive census of its graphics processing units and independently verify its export control compliance.S1S2

The affair has put Nvidia's board under pressure. Huang, 63, admitted over the weekend to being "unfaithful" to his wife, and the company's stock price has plunged since. Two sources told NBC News that the board was meeting Wednesday evening to address Huang's future, and the White House was aware of the meeting. A new New York Times report also said Huang had a relationship with an executive who reported to him. The company has said it had "no reason to believe" that national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised, but that its inquiry would examine all available information. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the FBI was investigating. Early Thursday there was no word on any outcome from the board's discussions.S1S2

The scandal also raises questions about how much U.S. government officials knew about Alice Huang and Megaspeed. NBC News reported that Secretary of State Marco Rubio circulated a memo to Trump administration officials this past spring outlining what U.S. intelligence had found. The stakes are significant for Nvidia, a company that has become a leader in making chips that power AI and whose founder helped build it into the world's second most valuable company. Huang has lobbied Washington to loosen limits on chip sales to China, and won Trump's approval in January for the company to sell its H200 chips there. China has dismissed the spying allegations as "smears," and a foreign ministry spokesperson said Thursday that the U.S. should stop fabricating espionage narratives as a pretext for technological blockades.S1S2