Three House committee chairs set a closed-door meeting for November 18 to address concerns over restricted technology transfers. The move stems from an active federal investigation into a former executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, a firm purchasing chips from Nvidia while suspected of helping China obtain banned semiconductors. In response to the scrutiny, the semiconductor maker maintained that its Asian cloud clients receive solely standard commercial information and never obtain sensitive trade secrets.
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Congress is actively probing whether foreign adversaries bypassed export controls to acce…: Congress is actively probing whether foreign adversaries bypassed export controls to access restricted American artificial intelligence technology.
Lawmakers view scrutiny of corporate customer networks as essential to determining the br…: Lawmakers view scrutiny of corporate customer networks as essential to determining the broader risk posed to United States national security.
Nvidia maintains that it routinely consults federal entity lists and ensures customer int…: Nvidia maintains that it routinely consults federal entity lists and ensures customer interactions exclude protected technical data.
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The New York Times reported last month that US authorities were investigating Alice Huang, a former executive of Singpore-based company Megaspeed, which buys AI chips from Nvidia. US authorities have scrutinized Megaspeed over suspicions it helped Beijing gain access to advanced AI chips that are barred from shipment to China.
In a letter dated November 4, Brian Mast, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, John Moolenaar, who leads the China Select Committee and Intelligence Committee Chair Eric Crawford asked Huang to provide a closed-door briefing on November 18 about the New York Times report and Nvidia's "security protocols against foreign adversary espionage."
The report raises "significant national security concerns regarding (China's) access to sensitive U.S. technology and information," they wrote. "It is vital that Congress determines the extent to which U.S. national security has been placed at risk." they added.
Nvidia did not comment on the letter but said Huang talks with "thousands of customer executives every year," and emphasized that cloud customers in Asia receive ordinary business information, not sensitive Nvidia trade secrets or anything tied to US…
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