Super Micro Computer says Megaspeed, the Singapore company at the center of the spying scandal that brought down Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang, was never one of its customers.
The assertion by Super Micro, whose co-founder was arrested earlier this year for smuggling Nvidia chips to China, comes as observers search for possible links between two companies whose business dealings with Nvidia are under scrutiny.
“Megaspeed is not and never has been a customer of Supermicro,” a spokesperson said. Fortune in a statement. The company also said it “has responded to inquiries and cooperated fully with U.S. and Taiwanese officials, while voluntarily providing information and responding to all requests from Singapore authorities to date.”
Supermicro’s statement comes after Singapore’s Home Ministry said Thursday that Singapore police and customs have opened investigations into Megaspeed and Alice Huang, a former Singapore executive who had an affair with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and who some authorities say acted as a spy for China.
Singapore authorities said they requested information from Supermicro and received only “limited cooperation.” The ministry said the issue of cooperation with Supermicro was first raised with US authorities on July 7, 2025, and then repeatedly with the Department of Justice and the FBI.
Alice Huang, who is not related to former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, has come under scrutiny after reports that she and the Nvidia co-founder were having an affair came to light before her resignation on Wednesday. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan is reportedly looking into whether entities linked to her helped smuggle Supermicro hardware equipped with Nvidia GPUs into China. Several investigations have been launched into export control violations related to Alice and her companies, including Megaspeed. Jensen, Nvidia and Supermicro have not been accused of wrongdoing.
However, Jensen’s fall has cast a dark cloud over Supermicro at an extremely complicated time for the hardware and liquid cooling technology company. One of Supermicro’s three co-founders, Charles Liang, is a longtime friend of Jensen’s and both are from Taiwan. They have shared the stage at several major Computex tech events in Taiwan, including in 2024, when Jensen was photographed having a drink with Alice. Both co-founded their company in 1993, and the close relationship between Supermicro and Nvidia has been a boon for customers hoping to be first in line for the latest generations of high-performance chips produced by Nvidia.
Another Supermicro co-founder, Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, was arrested and charged in March along with two others for allegedly working to funnel approximately $2.5 billion worth of servers powered by Nvidia’s H200 and B200 GPUs to China through a Southeast Asian shell company. Liaw pleaded not guilty and his trial was postponed until March 2027. A co-defendant, Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun, pleaded guilty in October. Supermicro said it was a victim of the scheme and conducted an internal investigation that found no evidence that current members of senior management knew of the alleged plot. Supermicro’s stock fell nearly 4% this week.
In August, prosecutors in Keelung, Taiwan, charged nine people in connection with more than 130 Supermicro servers powered by Nvidia B300 chips that were allegedly allowed to be shipped using fake data center inspection records. Some 74 servers reached China and customs intercepted the rest. The defendants include two former employees of Supermicro Taiwan and a former employee of Nvidia Taiwan, who face charges of breach of trust and falsification of documents. In Taiwan, unauthorized exports of AI chips to China are currently not considered a criminal offense, so the charges relate to accusations of counterfeiting and breach of trust. Neither Nvidia nor Supermicro were charged.
The company said in a statement that it “maintains a robust compliance program and continues to work closely with authorities and industry partners to combat diversion and help protect American innovation.” The company disclosed a grand jury subpoena and requests for information from the SEC, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security and foreign authorities.
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