Spies and Silicon Chips: Alice Huang's Tangled Corporate Web

Spies and silicon chips: Alice Huang's corporate web

Singapore-based tech group Megaspeed dealt in billions of dollars' worth of the world's most advanced AI chips, but its office was an empty shell when AFP visited, its staff seemingly vanished long before claims of espionage landed at their door.

Spies and silicon chips: Alice Huang's tangled corporate web

Megaspeed's former director Alice Huang was this week outed as an alleged Chinese spy, accused of having an affair with Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang while digging up company secrets for Beijing. Details about Alice Huang's life are vague, making it almost impossible to pin down where she lives, where she works, or when she was born. But her influence undoubtedly spreads far and wide, from the nondescript Singapore office, to hulking data centr…