BEIJING,NOV 9 : China denied on Monday there was a spy plot attempt to ensnare Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, calling the spying allegations unsubstantiated and a smear campaign against Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Huang has acknowledged to the Nvidia board that he had been intimate with a business executive who US intelligence determined was gathering information for Beijing, according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe so-called Chinese spy allegation is unsubstantiated. It is nothing but smears against China,\u201d Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The chips company CEO is at the centre of a controversy over whether he drove sales of advanced computer chips to China, in spite of US tech restrictions aimed at limiting China’s ability to access these advanced technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nvidia said on Sunday that the company would launch an investigation into the case. Huang did not name the person in the extramarital affair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
China had previously denied the New York Times report that said Huang had developed a close relationship with a Chinese citizen named Alice Huang, who ran a company that faced claims of smuggling advanced chips into China, and that she was a spy for Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Huang had pushed to loosen chip sales restrictions to China, successfully lobbying US President Donald Trump to allow his company to sell H200 chips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While those chips are not Nvidia’s most cutting-edge models, they are still advanced. However, it is uncertain if Beijing would allow Chinese companies to buy these chips en masse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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