Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs said on Thursday, Nov. 12, that its police had barred Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, from coming back into the country in February. She had been chief executive and chair of Megaspeed International, a company registered in Singapore, and one of the people who controlled it. The ministry describes her as a Hong Kong resident who was not based in Singapore. The police found too little evidence that she had committed offenses tied to the possibly inaccurate statements Megaspeed was suspected of making when it bought servers. But they concluded that she had knowingly given them inaccurate information to play down her role in the company. They gave her a stern warning, and the ministry says it has dealt with other cases the same way. She left Singapore on Feb. 26, the day they gave back her passport.
According to news reports, Megaspeed buys AI chips from NVIDIA, and U.S. authorities have looked into whether it helped China get advanced AI chips that may not be shipped there. Those reports also say Alice Huang had a relationship with Jensen Huang, though the two are not related. NVIDIA's board announced on Nov. 12 that he had resigned as chief executive and from the board, without giving a reason. In a letter dated Nov. 4, the chairmen of three U.S. House committees had asked him to brief them on his contacts with Alice Huang, whom they called "a publicly reported" Chinese intelligence asset. The ministry says she was not investigated for spying, and on Oct. 31 it said Singapore had not investigated her over her ties to Jensen Huang or to Chinese intelligence.
Singapore says its police and customs agency opened their own investigation in February 2025, not at any other country's request, into several companies and their key officers, Megaspeed among them. It concerns suspected false statements made when servers were bought. Those servers were bought by companies under investigation and shipped through Singapore to Malaysia without entering Singapore's market. The police are looking at whether they were then sent on from Malaysia to another place, contrary to what was declared in Singapore. Between February 2025 and July 2026, Singapore charged four people and four companies in court with offenses including fraud in buying servers, each carrying up to 20 years in prison. The ministry did not say whether any of them is tied to Megaspeed.
To check the companies' declarations, Singapore says it needed records from the countries the servers came from and went to, and asked the United States and others for information. It first learned of U.S. interest in Megaspeed on June 24, 2025. That day the Bureau of Industry and Security, the U.S. office behind its limits on exports, made a voluntary check at Megaspeed with Alice Huang present. Singapore's police interviewed her the same day and held her passport. They also sought information about Supermicro, a U.S. server maker whose records mattered to the case, and say the company gave "limited cooperation". Singapore says it raised this with U.S. officials at a meeting on July 7, 2025, asking for their help to get Supermicro to cooperate. It has repeated that request to the Justice Department and the FBI several times since September 2025, and has "to date received limited information or assistance" about the company. Supermicro told a reporter that Megaspeed "is not, and has never been, a Supermicro customer," and that it has engaged with all of Singapore's requests so far.
Malaysia's Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry said on Friday, Nov. 13, that it had never cleared Megaspeed or its Malaysian affiliate, Speedmatrix. It said any visits it made to the data centers where Speedmatrix rents space were part of its routine monitoring of the industry and should not be read as clearing a company. Speedmatrix brings its own servers and AI chips into Malaysia, which does not currently need a permit. Since July 2025, though, sending high-performance U.S. AI chips out of or through Malaysia has needed a permit from the ministry, and giving customs false information about such goods is a serious crime. The ministry says it is working with Malaysia's customs department to find out whether any of the chips have been sent on to other countries, and whether that was legal. It says it will make its own checks, under Malaysian law, and it warned companies not to misrepresent their dealings with government agencies. Megaspeed said on Nov. 12 that it had cooperated with U.S. inspections and hired a U.S. law firm to count its AI chips and check how it follows U.S. export rules, a news report says.
Both governments say they do not enforce limits other countries set on their own exports, but expect companies there to take them into account, and both promise firm action where they find their own laws were broken. "Malaysia welcomes investment in data centres and technology, but will not allow itself to be used to get around export controls," the ministry said. It says it is working with Singapore and the United States and is considering further steps to tighten controls where needed, without saying which. Singapore says its inquiry into Megaspeed and six people goes on, and none of the six has been in Singapore since it began in February 2025. Neither government has named them, said where the servers may have gone after Malaysia, or reported any finding that Megaspeed broke the law.