Nvidia spying scandal emboldens Washington's China hawks
While Nvidia was already on track to face bipartisan scrutiny, Huang’s relationship with a Megaspeed executive is galvanizing US lawmakers’ efforts to restrict the company’s exports to China and intensify scrutiny of the tech giant, Politico reported.
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- ‘We were confident in the research initially, and we’re still confident in it now,’ says Christian Lamarco, founder of Culper Research.
- That scrutiny could extend to the Trump administration itself: The New York Times reported that Nvidia intervened to halt a Commerce Department investigation into Megaspeed.
US President Donald Trump has defended Huang, who has successfully lobbied to remove some export controls on Nvidia chips and has accompanied Trump to Beijing.
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