Nvidia Chinese Spy Story Is Getting Worse: Huang’s Affair Helped Move $7.5 Billion in Chips to China Rich Duprey Tue, November 10, 2026 at 12:10 PM EST 5 min read NVDA -6.11% AMD +0.32% AMZN +0.78% BAC +0.16% Explore stocks on Coinbase Trading disclosure Trading disclosure The above button links to Coinbase. Yahoo Finance is not a broker-dealer or investment adviser and does not offer securities or cryptocurrencies for sale or facilitate trading. Coinbase pays us for certain activity generated through this link. Prices displayed are informational.
NVIDIA's China exposure turned from scandal to export-control problem as The Information reported Jensen Huang's affair helped route at least $8 billion in chips to China.
Bank of America urged restraint, saying "We would not equate allegations with proven business damage," while AMD's licensed China sales and Amazon's Trainium win investor attention.
NVIDIA reports earnings November 17, where investors will watch export compliance commentary, regulatory moves, and whether the stock holds its $165 March closing low.
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The allegations surrounding NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) moved from a personal scandal to an export-control problem on Tuesday. The Information reported that CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with Alice Huang (no relation) helped facilitate shipments of at least $7.5 billion in NVIDIA chips to Chinese firms. Reuters could not independently verify the report. It described the alleged setup: Alice Huang, her husband and her sister built a network of companies across China and Singapore that moved about 240,000 H100, H200 and some A100 chips into China.
Shares traded at $168.78 late Tuesday morning. That was down 5.54% on the session, 16.47% for the week and 26.39% for the month. On Monday the stock fell 4.3% and the company lost $192.08 billion in market value.
For a year, NVIDIA has told investors its China data center business has shrunk to almost nothing. H20 shipments to China were zero in Q1 FY2027, compared with $4.6B a year earlier. NVIDIA recorded a $4.5B H20 inventory charge as well. In August, CFO Colette Kress stated the official position:
"In Q2, we shipped less than 1% of our total data center revenue in Hopper 200 products to customers based in China in accordance with U.S. government licenses."
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"Given ongoing geopolitical uncertainty, there is no China data center compute revenue in our forward outlook."
A gray-market channel that size would point to a compliance gap that falls outside reported revenue. NVIDIA's board opened an internal investigation on Sunday. The FBI is examining whether Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence operation. Huang told employees he was unfaithful to his wife but gave no details. A report shared on X said a Commerce Department smuggling probe was "halted and transferred to the Justice Department after Nvidia's legal team contacted investigators."
The business itself continues to expand. Q2 FY2027 revenue reached $96.221B, up 105.85% from a year earlier. Q3 guidance calls for $108.0B ±2%, and that figure excludes China. Huang said in August:
"AI has reached its inflection point. It's doing useful work. Its tokens are productive and profitable. Now, compute is revenue."
Board oversight has drawn scrutiny. Yahoo Finance noted that the board "doesn't have a chairperson" and that four directors have served alongside Huang for about 30 years or longer. Bespoke reported that market-implied pricing put the chance of Huang leaving the CEO role by January 1, 2028, at 34%. Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) urged caution:
"We would not equate allegations with proven business damage."
Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) handled China through licensed channels. It booked about $390 million in MI308 China sales in Q4 2025 after an earlier $800 million export-control inventory charge. Its Q3 2026 Data Center revenue grew 97% to $8.546 billion. Lisa Su said:
"Demand for our Instinct and EPYC products continued to strengthen, and we expect growth to accelerate further in the fourth quarter."
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) offers a second alternative with Trainium. Anthropic expects to secure up to 5 GW of Trainium capacity. Andy Jassy said Amazon's chips business has exceeded a $25.00 billion run rate.
Investors are separating NVIDIA from the rest of the chip group. Bespoke wrote that "semis are up 5% even though its biggest member is down 5%."
NVIDIA reports earnings on November 17. Three things matter most: what management says about export compliance, whether regulators move to restrict shipments, and whether the stock holds its March closing low of $165.17.
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