Singapore: No probe into Nvidia boss’ ‘link’ to spy plot
Singapore, Singapore—Singapore has denied investigating a Chinese executive reportedly close to Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, rejecting claims made in a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report that authorities were “concerned” about possible Chinese espionage.
The Journal said in an article published on Friday that officials in the United States, Taiwan and Singapore “have grown concerned” about the ties between the Nvidia boss and Alice Huang of Singapore-based data center firm Megaspeed International.
The ties “potentially” gave “Beijing access to information about the world’s most valuable artificial-intelligence chips,” the report said.
Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs said at the weekend that neither the government nor officials had expressed concerns about Alice Huang’s ties to the Nvidia boss or suspicions she was a Chinese intelligence source.
“The WSJ article cites sources that Singapore officials were concerned with Alice Huang’s close ties to Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang or her being an alleged Chinese intelligence source, and had separately investigated her ties to China,” the ministry said in a statement issued on Saturday.
“We would like to make clear that neither the Singapore Government nor its officials said this. And there were no such investigations conducted in respect of Alice Huang.”
