The requested session would put Nvidia’s security controls and Jensen Huang’s reported interactions with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang before the three committees.
The request carries the signatures of House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian J. Mast, House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Chairman John Moolenaar and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford. They signed on Nov. 4, and the document became public a day later. The proposed venue is Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The chairs invited Huang to offer another date if he could not attend Nov. 18, provided it falls on a session day of the 119th Congress.
The letter asks about Nvidia's defenses against foreign espionage and Huang's interactions with Alice Huang. It describes her as a “publicly reported” intelligence asset of the People's Republic of China (PRC), but offers no evidence supporting that characterization. The chairs said they want Congress to assess whether U.S. national security was put at risk.
The New York Times reported Oct. 29 that U.S. officials had concluded Alice Huang sent information to Beijing and had grown close to Jensen Huang. The House letter does not substantiate those allegations; it requests information about the reported interactions.
An Nvidia spokesperson told The National that regional cloud customers receive routine commercial material, while sensitive trade secrets and information relevant to national security are withheld. Reuters separately reported that Nvidia said Huang speaks with thousands of customer executives each year.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun rejected the report at an Oct. 30 briefing, calling it unsubstantiated and a smear against China.
Huang was asked to respond to the chairs by Nov. 11.
