Congressional Committee Requests Closed-Door Briefing with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on Export Controls
U.S. House committee chairs have asked NVIDIA chief Jensen Huang to appear for a closed briefing on November 18 to discuss the company’s safeguards against foreign espionage and its ties to a Megaspeed executive under investigation.
U.S. House Republicans leading the Foreign Affairs, China-focused, and Intelligence committees sent a joint letter on Nov. 4 requesting that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang appear for a closed-door briefing on Nov. 18 in the Rayburn House Office Building. The briefing will focus on NVIDIA’s security measures intended to prevent foreign-adversary espionage and on Huang’s past interactions with Alice Huang, an executive at Megaspeed who is under federal surveillance as a suspected People’s Republic of China intelligence asset.
The request, signed by Representatives Brian Mast, John Moolenaar and Rick Crawford, cites concerns that advanced NVIDIA chips, including B300 GPUs listed on the U.S. export control list, have been found in China Telecom’s infrastructure. A security research firm reported that 32 such GPUs, which use High Bandwidth Memory from Samsung and SK hynix, appear to have been routed through Hong Kong and then re-purposed in China, bypassing export restrictions.
Committee chairs asked Huang to confirm his availability or propose an alternative date by Nov. 11. The hearing comes as Washington intensifies efforts to limit Chinese access to cutting-edge semiconductor technology.