Bloomberg details web of Chinese AI companies with smuggled NVIDIA chips linked to Alice Huang - Engadget

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Bloomberg reports reviewing documents that lay out a network of Chinese companies obtaining NVIDIA chips barred from sale in China, with Alice Huang at its center. A Singaporean firm, Aperia Cloud Services, purchased Dell servers containing NVIDIA H800 chips, which are banned in China; Dell subsequently severed ties with Aperia over concerns about the deal. The hardware details surfaced in filings from Shanghai Longteng Intelligent Computing, a company Alice Huang founded, where her sister, identified as Huang Yu, became majority owner; the filings did not show whether Alice Huang was personally involved in the procurement. The servers were installed at a Shanghai AI facility, the Yangtze River Delta Project, whose president is reported to be her husband, Kang Wei, the person said to have introduced her to Jensen Huang. US officials reportedly believe Alice Huang was recruited by Chinese intelligence to target the NVIDIA co-founder, who has admitted an affair with her and is due to testify before Congress this month.