Jen-Hsun Huang's affair with a spy threatens national security, US lawmakers urge chip chip loser to suspend

Huida CEO Jen-Hsun Huang confessed to having an extramarital affair, raising national security concerns in the United States because the alleged partner was Huang Le, a Chinese female spy. U.S. congressmen and think tank scholars have called for a suspension of exports of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China and demanded that loopholes in U.S. export control policies be investigated.

McCaul, Vice Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, posted on X on the 8th: "This is a consistent tactic of the Chinese Communist Party, which once again proves that the Chinese Communist Party is not trustworthy at all. The United States should immediately suspend the export of advanced AI chips to China until the truth is found out and national security is not violated."

Separately, the New York Times reported that earlier this year the Trump administration approved a Beijing-based company called New Matrix to purchase Huida H200 chips to assemble servers; however, the newspaper’s investigation revealed that the owner of New Matrix is related to a well-known Chinese private equity fund, which was included in the trade blacklist by the U.S. government in 2024. Analysts believe that New Matrix may be a "shell company" related to the private equity fund.

McGail, a senior fellow on China and emerging technologies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), called for the loopholes in U.S. export control policies to be investigated. Taking Huang Le's Megaspeed's acquisition of Huida's advanced chips as an example, McGuire said: "The U.S. Department of Commerce, under Huang's lobbying, formulated relevant policies so that China can still obtain Huida's most advanced chips through Megaspeed. The top officials of the Ministry of Commerce knew this and actively opposed tightening Huida's chip export controls. The Department of Commerce must strengthen export controls to prevent China from obtaining controlled chips through intermediary companies."