Singapore Says U.S. Not Helpful on Investigation into Suspected Spy's Company

Singapore’s authorities stated on Thursday the United States had provided small assistance in its inquiry into Alice Huang, the female at the center of a spy storyline that has led to the inquiry of Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang.

Singaporean authorities held Ms. Huang’s passport to forestall her from leaving the nation from June 2025 until February complete “potential false declarations” in connection to her company, Megaspeed, which is based in the country, the authorities stated in a statement. She was ultimately released alongside a “stern warning” and barred from re-entering Singapore.

The declaration raises new questions concerning the reply of the Trump administration to the case and why the U.S. authorities did not additional forcefully intervene. According to the timeline in the statement, Singaporean authorities had been holding Ms. Huang’s passport fine following President Trump was briefed final autumn concerning her association alongside Nvidia’s chief administrator and the condemnation that she was a Chinese intellect asset.

The New York Times has reported that Taiwan began monitoring Ms. Huang in 2024 at the direction of the U.S. government.

In its statement, Singapore stated that it had sought data from an American server creator and near Nvidia endeavor partner, Supermicro, but that the business had provided “limited cooperation.” Supermicro, a resolute that packages Nvidia’s A.I. chips onto servers that can be used in data centers, has been at the center of a figure of part smuggling investigations throughout the globe.

Supermicro was a provider to Megaspeed, a business unified in Singapore and run by Ms. Huang, according to two group alongside cognition of the matter.

Singapore stated in the declaration its authorities raised Supermicro’s “limited cooperation” alongside the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation in July 2025 and “requested their aid in securing the company’s cooperation.”

“Despite these repeated requests, Singapore has to date received constricted data or aid in regard of the company,” the declaration said.

Supermicro did not immediately react to a petition for comment.

During questioning, Ms. Huang sought to downplay her function in Megaspeed, according to Singapore’s statement. She was ultimately released since of “insufficient evidence relating to the imaginable inaccurate declarations for which Megaspeed was being investigated.”