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Singapore bans Alice Huang of Megaspeed over Nvidia chip probe

Singapore has barred Alice Huang, ex-head of Megaspeed, from returning. Police say she gave false information in a probe into Nvidia servers sent to China.

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Alice Huang left Singapore the day she got her passport back, and now she can't return. Singapore has banned the former head of Megaspeed from entering the country after an investigation into illegal shipments of servers with Nvidia chips to China.

According to local law enforcement, Huang gave police inaccurate information and tried to play down her role at Megaspeed. The company is registered in Singapore and was run by her until recently. US authorities suspect it supplied false details about who the end buyers of servers packed with in-demand Nvidia chips really were.

How the Megaspeed investigation unfolded

Singapore police opened the case in February 2025. In June of that year they questioned Huang and took her passport. It was returned only in February 2026, and she left the country the same day.

The Singapore side is not happy with Washington either. Investigators say they never received enough evidence to decide whether Huang committed a crime. Since September 2025 they have repeatedly asked the US Department of Justice and the FBI for details of the American probe into server maker Supermicro, and got only minimal information back.

Why the story reached Washington

The case drew extra political attention in the US after reports about Megaspeed's business ties with Nvidia and alleged personal ties between Alice Huang and Jensen Huang, who is now Nvidia's former chief executive. American officials also suspect her of links to Chinese intelligence. None of this has been proven in the material available.

Huang herself is hard to reach. The Financial Times could not contact her: her WeChat account and email were deleted and her phone was switched off.

Megaspeed said separately that it has hired a US law firm to review its compliance with export rules. Chairman Tan Yong Pong said the company welcomes well-founded scrutiny from authorities and intends to show it runs its business responsibly and transparently.

The broader point is how hard it is to track chips once they leave a factory. Export limits on Nvidia hardware only work if the buyer named on the paperwork is the real one, and this case is about exactly that.

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