Jensen Huang has agreed to brief House lawmakers before Thanksgiving, with the date still under negotiation, as Congress presses its probe of the Nvidia chip pipeline to China. The briefing was reported by TechCrunch, Engadget and NBC, and it follows the resignation that ended his 33 year tenure as chief executive of the company at the centre of the AI boom.
Why it matters
The Senate is moving in parallel. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott asked Huang and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to testify, according to Reuters, and two senators have issued formal document preservation demands over a 4.8 billion dollar pipeline of advanced Nvidia chips to China through a Singapore firm. The senators set a deadline of November 17 for the documents.
The pipeline is the centre of the probe. Singapore based Megaspeed purchased over 4.8 billion dollars in advanced Nvidia AI chips since June 2024, and the company is under a Justice Department investigation for illicit diversion of export restricted chips to China. Its former executive Alice Huang is alleged to be a Chinese intelligence asset, and Singapore said on November 12 that it barred her from re-entering in February.
What happens next
Beijing has denied that there was any Chinese plot to spy on Huang, and the Nvidia board has said it has no reason to believe that either national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised. The denials do not answer the Senate questions, which are about the chips and the paperwork, not about the affair itself.
What happens next will be decided by what the documents show and what Huang tells the House. If the paper trail confirms the diversion, export controls will face hard questions in Congress. If it does not, the probe will still have put the chip pipeline under a spotlight it cannot easily leave.
The Megaspeed story reaches beyond the Senate. The United States and Singapore are scrutinising the company over allegations that it potentially transshipped billions of dollars in export restricted Nvidia chips to China. Alice Huang was detained by Singapore authorities in the summer of 2025 and prevented from leaving the country, and Taiwanese authorities have revoked her entry permit.
