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title: Classified Intelligence Document Reveals Chinese Espionage Operation Targeting Nvidia CEO
url: https://www.elseif.net/classified-intelligence-document-reveals-chinese-espionage-operation-targeting-nvidia-ceo
published: 2026-11-10T18:04:44+00:00
language: en
section: Models
source: https://www.ynet.co.il/digital/technews/article/rjvieahtmx
organizations: Nvidia, Megaspeed, Alibaba, CETC, Huawei
publisher: elseif
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# Classified Intelligence Document Reveals Chinese Espionage Operation Targeting Nvidia CEO

A classified intelligence memorandum distributed among United States intelligence agencies and the Trump administration reveals an industrial espionage operation by the Chinese Ministry of State Security. The operation targeted Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang to gather information on artificial intelligence chips and influence export policies.

According to the intelligence, Alice Huang, a senior official at the Singapore based data center company Megaspeed, was recruited by Beijing's intelligence agency. Alice Huang and Jensen Huang, who are not related, engaged in a romantic relationship that was monitored by United States intelligence agencies for over a year. The two were documented at a bar in Taipei in June 2024.

During this period, Megaspeed, which originated from an unknown Chinese gaming company, purchased billions of dollars in advanced Nvidia chips. Intelligence investigations found that Megaspeed established server farms in Southeast Asia and leased the computing power to the Chinese technology giant Alibaba. This arrangement created a channel to bypass United States sanctions that prohibit the direct sale of advanced processors to China. Additionally, investors behind the company in Shanghai and Zhejiang province have financial ties to CETC, a major Chinese military technology manufacturer.

In response to these findings, the heads of three congressional committees demanded that Jensen Huang appear for a closed door briefing. Nvidia stated that it does not share classified information with customers and that the meetings between its Chief Executive Officer and Alice Huang did not exceed routine work with thousands of customers. The Chinese embassy in Washington denied the findings, calling them baseless slanders.

Although President Trump was updated on the matter last year and chose not to intervene, congressional pressure led to the blocking of an initiative that would have allowed Nvidia to sell its flagship chips to China in exchange for a 25 percent government fee.

The report highlights the strategic goal of Beijing to become the leading artificial intelligence power by 2030. It notes that Nvidia's Blackwell generation processors, such as the GB300, provide processing power of approximately 7,500 teraflops in FP4 calculations at 1,400 watts. The upcoming Rubin platform is expected to increase performance up to 66,700 teraflops in edge arrays. In contrast, Huawei's Ascend 910C and Ascend 950 series lag behind Nvidia by approximately three to four years in features and capabilities. To compensate, Huawei connects hundreds of processors in large arrays like CloudMatrix 384, which provides 49 terabytes of cumulative memory for running Chinese models such as DeepSeek and Qwen. However, a Huawei server cabinet consumes about 559 kilowatts, compared to 120 kilowatts for a parallel Nvidia NVL72 system.