与黄爱丽丝有关联的公司在中国采购了被禁的英伟达芯片Alice Huang-Linked Firm Procured Banned Nvidia Chips in China

A Chinese company founded by Alice Huang, the woman at the center of a controversy dogging Nvidia Corp., procured smuggled AI chips that were installed at a Shanghai data center with links to Megaspeed International Pte, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News.

Some of the servers were originally sold to Aperia Cloud Services, an official Nvidia Cloud Partner headquartered in Singapore, according to a person familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic.

But instead of staying in the island nation, the documents show, the hardware wound up in the hands of a Chinese company Alice founded, at a sprawling AI facility in Shanghai. That project has several ties to Alice, including that Megaspeed — which she founded in 2023 — used a rendering of the data center in a 2024 investor presentation.

The documents offer the most explicit evidence yet that an expansive network of Chinese companies with Alice at the center managed to get its hands on smuggled Nvidia hardware — indeed, via an NCP separate from Megaspeed, which is itself also suspected of semiconductor diversion.

It’s a breach of US trade restrictions that raises additional questions about former Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang’s relationship to a woman with whom he admitted to having an extramarital affair, igniting a firestorm that pushed him out and sent shockwaves through the AI industry.

Specifically, Aperia purchased 22 servers from Dell Technologies Inc. that contained Nvidia’s H800 chips, which Washington restricted from sale to China in 2023. Bloomberg provided serial numbers of those servers to a person familiar with the transaction, who confirmed that Aperia was Dell’s customer.

Dell said in a statement that it “stopped all sales and support to Aperia International in February 2025 due to unauthorized diversion concerns.”That’s the month that Singapore arrested Aperia’s CEO on charges of defrauding server suppliers. He’s pleaded not guilty. In May of that year, Jensen said there was “no evidence” of chip diversion.

Nvidia has previously said that Aperia was no longer an active customer by the time its CEO was arrested, and has since removed the company from its public list of NCPs. Aperia, which has denied any wrongdoing, declined to comment by phone on Thursday and didn’t respond to emailed questions about the hardware and its relationship with Alice. Singapore prosecutors on Friday charged a fifth person in relation to the case.

The hardware that Aperia purchased from Dell was detailed in filings by a unit of Shanghai Longteng Intelligent Computing — set up by Alice a decade ago — as part of a group of 193 servers, installed in Shanghai, that the Chinese company pledged as collateral for financing in January 2025, according to documents submitted to the central government. Chinese companies are legally required to provide certain details of financing contracts to a database maintained by the credit agency of the People’s Bank of China.

The filings didn’t specify how the Nvidia chips in question were obtained, or whether Alice was personally involved in that transaction. She relinquished her shares of Shanghai Longteng in 2017 — and a new shareholder named Huang Yu took over, according to an official corporate registry database.

The latter — who was identified by the news outlet The Information as Alice’s sister — remained a majority owner until January 2026, according to the corporate registry, meaning she oversaw the company during the period in which the servers installed in Shanghai were offered as collateral.

All told, the collateralized hardware was worth 485 million yuan ($73 million), according to the filings. In addition to the Dell servers, it included 52 units manufactured by US-based Super Micro Computer Inc. and containing either Nvidia’s H100 or H200 chips — both restricted from sale to China without a US license.

Bloomberg provided serial numbers for the hardware installed in Shanghai to Super Micro, inquiring to whom it was originally sold and when. The company didn’t answer those questions, but said that it “sold the identified servers in compliance with all applicable US export and re-export control laws.”Super Micro added that it didn’t sell Nvidia chips to any of the Chinese companies tied to the Shanghai data center and doesn’t have any affiliation with the facility, which is called the Yangtze River Delta Project.

The Yangtze River Delta Project has a number of ties to Alice. According to a news clip from Shanghai local media, its president is Kang Wei, a longtime business associate who’s been introduced at times as her romantic partner, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked to remain anonymous to discuss a sensitive situation. Kang met Nvidia’s CEO in the 2010s, according to The Information.

Kang is a top executive at Shanghai Hexi, a private equity firm that provided financial backing for the data center and once employed Alice. In March 2025, a local media video report showed him attending a government inspection of the data center. In the footage, he’s seen carefully taking notes of what officials said during the meeting.

Then there’s Megaspeed, a separate company Alice created that is now under US investigation for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips to China. Megaspeed used a rendering of the Yangtze River Delta Project in a slide deck for investors in 2024, presenting it as the company’s largest AI facility — a “specific area” data center in an unnamed country. A separate company called Shanghai Shuoyao, which is something of Megaspeed’s Chinese corporate twin, advertised for engineers to work on “H100, H200 and other GPU models” — the banned Nvidia chips — at an address half a kilometer from the site.

Bloomberg reported the majority of these links in December 2025, at which time Nvidia and Megaspeed declined to answer questions about the Yangtze River Delta Project.

The latest trove of documents go a step further: the unit of the holding company Alice founded told Chinese regulators that it did, in fact, have restricted servers at the Shanghai data center. Some of the chips those servers contain — H100s and H200s — are the same models for which Shanghai Shuoyao was soliciting an engineer.

Nvidia declined to comment. Megaspeed, which has categorically denied the chip smuggling allegations, didn’t respond to questions. Bloomberg was unable to reach Shanghai Longjie Yaoteng, the unit of the Chinese company Alice founded that disclosed the servers in its filings, and its parent — Shanghai Longteng — didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Bloomberg has been unable to reach Alice for comment despite repeated attempts over the past year. She is currently located in Beijing, Bloomberg has reported, having returned to China after Singapore authorities determined they didn’t have sufficient evidence to prosecute her in relation to their Megaspeed investigation.

Kang Wei couldn’t be reached for comment, and his company — Shanghai Hexi — didn’t respond to enquiries. Huang Yu couldn’t be reached for comment.

Beyond the Super Micro and Dell hardware, Shanghai Longjie used 119 Gigabyte Technology Co. servers as collateral for the same loans. While the Gigabyte hardware information isn’t specific enough to identify the types of chips the servers contained, the servers’ pricing appears similar to that of Super Micro’s and Dell’s, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News. Taiwan-based Gigabyte didn’t respond to questions.

Overall, the volume of hardware disclosed in these specific filings is small. But other documents show that Shanghai Longteng procured more servers than what it offered as collateral for the two loans. In the months of May through June 2024, a subsidiary secured “computing servers” worth 747 million yuan and installed them at the Yangtze River Delta Project, according to company documents reviewed by Bloomberg that didn’t specify the models or suppliers.