Megaspeed’s Links to Rural Australian Store Raise Fresh Questions in Nvidia Scandal
The company said a U.S. law firm will review chip inventories and export-control compliance as authorities probe possible diversion of restricted Nvidia chips.
- Singapore-Based Megaspeed International has come under renewed scrutiny after its Australian subsidiary listed a 29-year-old Shanghai-born man, Kai Kang, as its sole director, using the address of a small newsagency and lottery shop in Seymour, Victoria.
- Reuters found that the shop was run by a woman who identified herself as Kang’s mother, while she said her son lived in Shanghai, did not work at the store and had no business involvement there.
- Further questions emerged because Megaspeed Australia listed a Sydney business address that appeared to be a virtual office, while regulatory records indicated that official correspondence sent there had been undelivered.
- The controversy has intensified amid allegations that Megaspeed may have helped Chinese customers obtain restricted Nvidia artificial intelligence chips, potentially violating US export controls, although the company has denied wrongdoing and says it is cooperating with authorities.
- Singapore authorities are investigating the company, while Australian officials have not confirmed whether a separate investigation is underway; meanwhile, allegations involving former Megaspeed executive Alice Huang and Nvidia's Jensen Huang have added to the international scrutiny.
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Megaspeed International has commissioned a US law firm to conduct a complete census of its graphics processing units (Gpu) and independently verify the business procedures for compliance with US rules on ... (ANSA)
In the wake of the scandal surrounding the affair of Nvidia CEO Huang, Megaspeed is suspected of having delivered AI chips to China despite US sanctions. US lawyers are now to count among other things the company's graphics chips.
The Singapore company that is at the center of the scandal involving Nvidia's CEO registered affiliated companies in the United States, Australia and other countries, with a 29-year-old man who reported as his address a newspaper and lottery store in a city around Melbourne. Megaspeed International gained prominence after reports that Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, would have had a close relationship with Chinese businessman Alice Huang, a cloud-ba…
China has rejected espionage allegations in this case that may lead to Jensen Huang leaving the company.
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