Megaspeed said on Sunday 15 November that Alice Huang left the company on 30 August 2025 and that it has hired outside lawyers to investigate reports about its operations, CNBC reported. The Singapore cloud computing company faces scrutiny over allegations that advanced Nvidia chips supplied through its business reached customers in China in breach of US export restrictions, the Associated Press reported.
Key points
- Megaspeed says Alice Huang has had no role at the company since 30 August 2025.
- Megaspeed has hired outside lawyers to examine reporting on its commercial activities, supply chain and operations across countries.
- Singapore began investigating Megaspeed in February 2025 over possible false declarations connected to server purchases.
Megaspeed dates Alice Huang’s departure
In its emailed statement to CNBC, Megaspeed said Huang “currently has no role with the Company”. Megaspeed says she left on 30 August 2025.
Singapore’s government identified Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, as Megaspeed’s former chief executive, chairperson and a key controller. Corporate records described by the Associated Press show she was no longer listed as a director by November 2023 and that her shares had been transferred to an entity owned by businessman Tan Yong Pong.
Those records and Megaspeed’s account address different questions: a directorship and shareholding in one case, an executive’s departure in the other. The company’s statement puts its own date on the latter.
Outside lawyers examine Megaspeed reports
Megaspeed says reports about its business, supply chain and global operations are “not supported by verifiable evidence”. It has retained external legal counsel for what it calls a “thorough internal investigation” of that reporting, and says its operational controls are designed to comply with US export rules and laws in the markets where it works.
The legal inquiry follows a separate measure announced on 12 November: Megaspeed said it had hired a US law firm to count its graphics processing units and independently check its export-control practices, NBC News reported. AI Affairs covered that chip census and Singapore’s decision to bar Alice Huang’s re-entry. A review of media reports gives the outside lawyers a different task from counting chips.
Megaspeed said in December 2025 that there was “no evidence” of illicit chip transfers, the Associated Press reported. Its new statement maintains its rejection of the allegations while adding an internal investigation led by external counsel.
Singapore’s Megaspeed investigation began in February 2025
Singapore’s government said on 12 November that its investigation into Megaspeed began in February 2025 and includes possible false declarations connected to server purchases. Authorities questioned Alice Huang and withheld her passport in 2025, according to the Associated Press. They found too little evidence to establish that Huang had broken the law, while believing she had given inaccurate information to downplay her role at Megaspeed.
US intelligence officials believe Alice Huang is a Chinese intelligence asset, according to The New York Times, as reported by CNBC. US Attorney General Todd Blanche said on 12 November that the Justice Department had not concluded whether she was a spy. Nvidia announced Jensen Huang’s departure as chief executive that day; AI Affairs reported that Colette Kress took the role on an interim basis.
Singapore’s investigation into Megaspeed and six other individuals over server shipments was continuing as of 12 November, NBC News reported.
