Chip inquiry in US was halted after Nvidia intervention

Ana Swanson & Devlin BarrettNew York Times·9 Nov, 2026 07:27 PM8 mins to readNvidia said that it was opening an investigation into Jensen Huang, after he acknowledged he had been intimate with an executive at a Singaporean company suspected of smuggling chips into China. Photo / Manuel Orbegozo, The New York TimesInvestigators at the US Commerce Department were deep into a months-long investigation of a Singaporean company that they suspected of smuggling Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips into China when their work came to a sudden halt late last year. The investigation centred on Megaspeed, a data centre company led by an