Singapore denies investigating alleged Chinese spy links involving Nvidia boss

SINGAPORE, Nov 2 — Singapore has denied investigating a Chinese executive reportedly close to Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, rejecting claims made in a Wall Street Journal report that authorities were “concerned” about possible Chinese espionage.

The Journal said in an article published on Friday that officials in the United States, Taiwan and Singapore “have grown concerned” about the ties between the Nvidia boss and Alice Huang of Singapore-based data centre firm Megaspeed International.

The ties “potentially” gave “Beijing access to information about the world’s most valuable artificial-intelligence chips”, the report said.

Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs said at the weekend that neither the government nor officials had expressed concerns about Alice Huang’s ties to the Nvidia boss or suspicions she was a Chinese intelligence source.

“The WSJ article cites sources that Singapore officials were concerned with Alice Huang’s close ties to Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang or her being an alleged Chinese intelligence source, and had separately investigated her ties to China,” the ministry said in a statement issued Saturday.

“We would like to make clear that neither the Singapore Government nor its officials said this. And there were no such investigations conducted in respect of Alice Huang.”

Nvidia is the world’s most valuable company thanks to the global drive to build data centres packed with specialist computer chips and other hardware that runs AI systems.

The Singaporean statement made no mention of a separate report by the New York Times which China described on Friday as “groundless speculation”.

That report said that the Nvidia chief was the target of a Chinese spy plot and also mentioned his ties with Alice Huang.

AFP attempted to contact Megaspeed for comment on Friday, but when calling the phone number listed on its website, the person who answered said they were unfamiliar with the company and that the number was a residential line. — AFP

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新加坡，11 月 2 日——新加坡否认正在调查据称与英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋关系密切的中国高管，驳斥了《华尔街日报》报道中关于当局“担忧”中国可能从事间谍活动的说法。

《华尔街日报》周五发表的一篇文章称，美国、台湾和新加坡的官员“越来越担心”英伟达首席执行官与新加坡数据中心公司 Megaspeed International 的 Alice Huang 之间的关系。

报告称，这些联系“可能”让“北京获得了有关世界上最有价值的人工智能芯片的信息”。

新加坡内政部周末表示，政府和官员都没有对黄爱丽与英伟达老板的关系表示担忧，也没有怀疑她是中国的情报来源。

该部周六发表声明称：“《华尔街日报》的文章援引消息人士的话称，新加坡官员对黄爱丽与英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋的密切关系，以及她被指控为中国情报来源表示担忧，并已单独调查了她与中国的关系。”

“我们想澄清的是，新加坡政府及其官员都没有说过这样的话。而且，也没有针对黄爱丽丝进行过此类调查。”

由于全球大力建设数据中心，这些数据中心配备了用于运行人工智能系统的专用计算机芯片和其他硬件，英伟达才成为全球市值最高的公司。

新加坡方面的声明没有提及《纽约时报》的另一篇报道，中国周五称该报道是“毫无根据的猜测”。

该报道称，英伟达首席执行官是中国间谍阴谋的目标，并提到了他与黄仁勋的关系。

法新社周五试图联系Megaspeed公司置评，但拨打其网站上列出的电话号码时，接电话的人表示不了解该公司，并称该号码为住宅电话。——法新社

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