Who is Alice Huang Le
The story, which exploded in recent weeks, has actually been going on for some time: at the end of last month, the New York Times reported that, according to US intelligence, the woman - a Chinese executive linked to Megaspeed, a data center company based in Singapore - had transmitted information to Beijing. The manager would have established a close relationship with Nvidia management, writes the Times.
Apologies to the family and the company
"I owe my family and all of you an apology. I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no apology for what I did. I am deeply sorry." This is how Jensen Huang, CEO and co-founder of Nvidia, addressed the employees of the American semiconductor giant, including his two sons and son-in-law, in the letter in which he admitted an extramarital affair with a manager suspected by US intelligence of providing information to China. "All my life, my family has given me love and support. They deserve my honesty and loyalty. Instead, I have failed them and damaged the life we have built together," the 63-year-old billionaire wrote in the letter obtained by The Washington Post. Huang then addressed his wife Lori directly, to whom he has been married for over 40 years, and his children: "I love you. I know that an apology cannot erase what I have done. I hope that our family can overcome this moment and that, with time, I can regain your trust."
As the Wall Street Journal reconstructs, Huang's family occupies an increasingly important role within Nvidia, today the most valuable company in the world, with a capitalization of more than 4 trillion dollars. Both children, Madison and Spencer, work in the company founded by their father in 1993, as does Madison's husband, Nico Caprez. The daughter mainly deals with Omniverse, a software division considered strategic for the group's expansion beyond the chip sector, and frequently accompanies her father on business trips, being part of a small circle of executives who support him in public commitments. Spencer instead works in the robotics division, while his son-in-law Caprez, who joined Nvidia in 2024 and was promoted to vice president last January, plays a leading role in relations with emerging cloud service providers. Madison and Spencer received combined compensation of $1.2 million and $1.3 million, respectively, in fiscal 2026, according to company filings. His wife Lori, whom Huang met while studying at Oregon State University, presides over the family charitable foundation, which has assets of around 9 billion dollars.
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Nvidia chips heading to China
The extramarital relationship of Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, with a Chinese businesswoman, suspected by US intelligence of being a spy in the service of Beijing, would have facilitated the shipment of Nvidia chips worth at least 7.5 billion dollars to Chinese companies. This was written by the website The Information, a US newspaper specializing in technology, quoting two people familiar with the woman. Alice Huang, together with her husband and sister, would have built a network of companies between China and Singapore to procure Nvidia chips, according to the newspaper. At the center of this network would have been Shanghai Century Litong, a company based in China, founded in June 2023, which had already obtained privileged cloud partner status from Nvidia in October of the same year, thus guaranteeing priority access to the company's chips. When orders for Nvidia chips subject to US export restrictions began to stall, Alice Huang allegedly leveraged her relationships with Nvidia and its distributors to secure supplies. In this way, according to the report, it would have managed to get around 240,000 chips of the H100, H200 and some A100 models to China.
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