What is known about the scandal at Nvidia: Another forbidden love of the CEO was revealed, Taiwan was also involved

It was revealed that Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, the world's largest artificial intelligence chip manufacturer, and Alice Huang, a Chinese citizen who was involved in the forbidden love scandal and allegedly provided intelligence to China, entered Taiwan, one of the most important players in the global semiconductor industry, eight times between 2024 and 2025.

WHY IS TAIWAN IMPORTANT?

Located in the middle of the competition between China and the USA, Taiwan is a self-governing island, but China claims that these lands belong to itself.

Alice Huang, former executive of Singapore-based Megaspeed, is believed to have leaked information to China and worked for Chinese intelligence during her relationship with Huang, the top executive of US chip giant Nvidia. Beijing denies all these allegations.

In the news in the New York Times newspaper that revealed the scandal, Taiwanese MPs emphasized that the USA advised Taiwan to monitor Alice Huang's movements as early as 2024, and submitted a parliamentary question regarding Alice Huang's entry and exit from Taiwan.

Thereupon, Taiwan Mainland Affairs Council Minister Qiu Chui-Ceng said in a statement to the MPs that Alice Huang entered Taiwan using a Hong Kong passport with "standard business visit status" and that there were no special warnings about her at that time.

Minister Qiu said, "At least we, the Mainland Affairs Council, have not received any information on the matter. If we had, we would definitely tighten our entry screening and border crossing management." he said.

Minister Çiu said that Alice Huang entered Taiwan three times in 2024 and five times in 2025, adding that there was no entry for this year in the records.

"If we had the kind of critical intelligence you mentioned that would lead us to believe that Huan posed a threat to Taiwan, we would certainly flag him up for stricter monitoring," Minister Zhou Zhou-cheng said. he said.

SECURITY INSTITUTIONS STARTED AN INVESTIGATION

While the government announced that Taiwan's security agencies were investigating the incident, cabinet spokeswoman Michelle Lee said there was currently no publicly available information regarding any criminal suspicion or investigation procedures regarding Alice Huang. Lee said, "Even if there is a criminal element, we cannot comment further due to confidentiality in an ongoing investigation." he said.