Huang's dismissal as NVIDIA CEO thwarted Chinese purchases of H100 and H200 AI accelerators for Russia

This is stated in an investigation by the American technology publication and YouTube channel Gamers Nexus.

Journalists have gained access to exclusive correspondence between a Chinese factory and an American IT company. The request came on the same day that news broke of Jensen Huang’s extramarital affair with Chinese citizen Alice Huang, the head of Singaporean intermediary firm Megaspeed, which US intelligence agencies suspect of working for Chinese intelligence and helping to circumvent export controls.

In the message, representatives of the factory from China were urgently looking for suppliers of NVIDIA H100 and H200 computing accelerators. They explicitly indicated that the end buyers were customers from Russia, since all used goods on the domestic Chinese market had already been bought up. Insider Gamers Nexus suggested that the publicity surrounding Huang and the investigation against Megaspeed had blocked the illegal supply channel.

“I’m really curious to see how much this Jensen thing has cut off their access,” the source said.

The American company refused the deal, emphasizing the criminal liability. "We will be arrested and put in prison if we sell this to you," the company replied. The interlocutor of the journalists explained that despite the permission of the Donald Trump administration to sell H200 to China on condition of paying 25% of the profit to the US budget, the conscious re-export of these chips to the Russian Federation for use in the US war is tantamount to treason.

Investigators say Russia is one of the final points in a complex chip smuggling scheme. It operates through a network of shell companies in Singapore, Malaysia, the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands, from where the equipment is shipped to China and then re-exported to Russia, presumably for Russian data centers and military systems. NVIDIA has ignored requests from reporters about the Russian footprint in the supply chain.

At the same time , Gamers Nexus journalists received a whole bucket of components from downed Russian drones from the front line in Ukraine. Among them, they found NVIDIA AI Edge Jetson processors, in particular the relatively new TE980M-A1 model (Tegra architecture), released in 2023 — after the introduction of American sanctions. According to investigators, these chips are widely used in Zala Z20 and Z16 reconnaissance UAVs, Lancet loitering munitions, as well as in Russian missile weapons.

Recall that on November 12, 2026, NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang resigned as CEO after 33 years at the helm of the company amid a scandal surrounding his relationship with Megaspeed CEO Alice Huang and the revelation of an office affair with a subordinate top manager. CFO Colette Kress became the interim CEO.

Previously, NVIDIA management has repeatedly denied the facts of smuggling its chips, claiming that it controls each accelerator, although the GUR has repeatedly reported the detection of NVIDIA Jetson chips in Russian drones and missiles.

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