Megaspeed’s global footprint deepens questions in Nvidia chip probe

Questions over Megaspeed’s reach

Megaspeed International began as an offshoot of a China-based gaming company and later gained access to restricted Nvidia AI chips. U.S. investigators allege Alice Huang used contacts and shell companies to obtain 240,000 chips barred from export to China.

The company is being investigated in both the United States and Singapore over alleged chip smuggling into China. Its broad international presence has prompted questions about whether it could be acting for the Chinese government.

The Straits Times reported that Megaspeed’s Singapore headquarters appeared nearly empty. Questions have also been raised about its operations in Australia and Malaysia.

Nvidia faces scrutiny and lawsuit

Earlier this week, Jensen Huang apologized to Nvidia employees in a statement over an affair. Nvidia has begun an independent investigation, and a shareholder filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday alleging Huang concealed a relationship with Alice Huang and misled investors about national security concerns.

Nvidia’s board said it had no reason to believe company secrets or national security had been compromised. China expert Jacqueline Deal warned that the chips could have reached the Chinese military if the allegations prove true. Deal, an adviser to the nonprofit State Armor, told CBS News, “If allegations are true, who will be fired?” She also said Nvidia’s compliance team may have failed.

Company denies illegal transfers

Megaspeed said its operations had been reviewed on site by the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, Malaysia’s Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry, and Nvidia. The company said those checks found no evidence of illegal activity or improper chip transfers.

Its LinkedIn profile calls Megaspeed a premier Nvidia business partner in the Asia Pacific region and lists 201 to 500 employees. The South China Morning Post reported that three years earlier, the company listed between two and 10 employees.

Singapore police investigated Megaspeed in 2025 for alleged breaches of local laws, according to The Straits Times. Details of that probe have not been made public.

Corporate records and overseas offices

Huang Le Limited, a British Virgin Islands shell company whose name is Alice Huang’s Chinese name, acquired 7Road International in March 2023. Documents show Alice Huang and Megaspeed director Cang Yang resigned by the end of October that year, after a company called Swiftdata bought the business; Swiftdata’s director is based in China.

Megaspeed lists an office on the seventh floor of Singapore’s Ocean Financial Centre. Its Australian subsidiary is listed at a Sydney commercial and retail tower where 40 other businesses share the floor, and space can be rented for as little as $17 a day, ABC News reported.

Australian corporate filings name Shanghai-born Kai Kang, a 29-year-old newspaper vendor, as the subsidiary’s director, according to Australian news reports. His newsstand is in Northern Victoria, more than 400 miles from Sydney, and his father told ABC News he had never heard of Megaspeed.