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the decoder · November 15, 2026

Nvidia's $12b China chip sales flowed through Jensen Huang's ex-lover's firm

megaspeed, linked to jensen huang's ex-lover, brokered $12b nvidia chip orders for china, potentially bypassing us export controls.

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megaspeed, a company owned by alice huang, the former lover of nvidia's jensen huang, reportedly brokered nearly $12 billion worth of nvidia high-performance chip orders for chinese companies between march 2024 and june 2025. the company shipped the chips to buyers in china who maintained long-standing business ties with local tech giants. megaspeed gained preferential access to scarce ai chips as an nvidia cloud partner, apparently because it counted chinese cloud and tech company alibaba as a major client. this may have contributed to nvidia's $12.4 billion in china revenue over six months, accounting for 7 percent of total revenue.

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