A Chinese company founded by Alice Huang, a former top executive at Megaspeed International, procured smuggled AI chips that were installed at a Shanghai data center with links to Megaspeed, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News. The company, Shanghai Longteng Intelligent Computing, is based in the eastern Chinese economic hub of Shanghai.

Some of the servers that housed the chips were originally sold to Aperia Cloud Services, an official Nvidia Cloud Partner headquartered in Singapore, according to a person familiar with the matter. The report places Huang at the center of a controversy dogging Nvidia Corp., which has been drawn into scrutiny over the diversion of restricted AI hardware to China.S2S3

Huang has been described in coverage of the affair as the alleged spy for Beijing, though the sources characterise that allegation only as part of the wider scandal surrounding Nvidia's chips. The reports indicate the banned hardware reached a Chinese company despite export restrictions on advanced AI chips.S3S1