Multiple US Justice Department probes threaten to sweep up Nvidia, according to two administration officials, as the fallout from former CEO Jensen Huang’s resignation continues to ripple across Washington.
One of those probes, on antitrust grounds, is focused specifically on the chipmaker, these people say, while two other inquiries focus on tech companies Megaspeed and Supermicro. The Megaspeed and Supermicro probes have focused on the involvement of Alice Huang, an alleged Chinese spy that Huang admitted to having an extramarital affair with before he resigned. There’s no indication that the DOJ would seek to charge Nvidia, or Huang, criminally at this time.
Spokespeople for Nvidia and the DOJ didn’t provide a comment to Semafor. Megaspeed and Supermicro didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
