Nvidia board opens probe as House seeks chip security briefing

Nvidia’s board opened an independent investigation on 8 November after recent reporting that founder and CEO Jensen Huang had been the target of a foreign intelligence effort. The same day he emailed staff apologising for being unfaithful to his wife, without naming the woman linked in those reports, and said he would cooperate with the inquiry. He continues as CEO.

The New York Times reported on 29–30 October that US intelligence agencies assessed Alice Huang, a Chinese executive linked to Nvidia customer Megaspeed in Singapore, had close access to Jensen Huang and was acting for Beijing. China rejected the claim. Nvidia has said customer meetings are routine and that regional clients receive ordinary business information, not trade secrets or national-security material.

Those reports and the corporate probe now overlap with congressional questions. On 4 November, three House committee chairs asked Jensen Huang for a closed briefing on 18 November on his interactions with Alice Huang and Nvidia’s security protocols against foreign espionage. The request is for a briefing; it has not been held. The board said it has “no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised,” while its inquiry will examine all available information.

On 9 November in Seoul, South Korea’s science ministry told parliament it expects production and delivery of contracted Nvidia GPU volumes to proceed without disruption. Ten thousand GPUs bought under a 2025 supplementary budget are already in use; 2026 contracted units are expected to enter service this year. Madison Huang’s planned Korea meetings were cancelled, while Nvidia AI Day Seoul went ahead. For buyers reliant on Nvidia GPUs, that public reassurance is the concrete stake so far.

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