A dispute over regulatory cooperation has thrust Super Micro Computer deeper into the widening legal and intelligence controversy surrounding Singapore-based Megaspeed.
Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs said Thursday that its authorities received only “limited cooperation” from Supermicro after requesting information as part of investigations into Megaspeed and its former executive Alice Huang.
The ministry revealed the matter was first raised with U.S. authorities on July 7, 2025, and was subsequently escalated repeatedly to the Department of Justice and the FBI.
Supermicro pushed back hard, with a spokesperson stating the company “has been responsive to inquiries and has fully cooperated with U.S. and Taiwanese officials, while also voluntarily providing information and engaging with all requests from Singapore authorities to date.”
The company also flatly denied any commercial relationship with Megaspeed, with the spokesperson declaring: “Megaspeed is not, and has never been, a Supermicro customer.”
The denial is significant because investigators are actively examining whether entities connected to Alice Huang helped smuggle Supermicro hardware loaded with Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) GPUs into China.
Alice Huang, who is not related to former Nvidia chief Jensen Huang, was a senior executive at Megaspeed and is believed by some authorities to have been operating as a spy for China.
Her affair with Jensen Huang became public before his resignation on Wednesday, triggering scrutiny of business relationships across the AI hardware supply chain.
Singapore’s police and customs agencies have opened formal investigations into both Megaspeed and Alice Huang, while the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan is separately examining potential export control violations tied to her network.
Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and Supermicro have not been charged with any wrongdoing, though the investigations have inflicted significant reputational and financial damage on all three.
Supermicro’s stock dropped nearly 4% this week, with shares sliding 2.55% on Friday as the legal and political pressures continued to accumulate around the company.
The hardware firm is already managing a separate criminal case involving its own co-founder: Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw was arrested in March and charged alongside two others with allegedly routing roughly $2.5 billion worth of servers equipped with Nvidia H200 and B200 GPUs into China via a Southeast Asian front company.
Liaw has pleaded not guilty and his trial has been scheduled for March 2027, while co-defendant Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun entered a guilty plea in October.
Supermicro has characterized itself as a victim of the alleged smuggling scheme and says an internal investigation found no evidence that current senior management had any knowledge of the conspiracy.
A third legal front emerged in Taiwan in August, when prosecutors in Keelung indicted nine individuals over 130 Supermicro servers containing Nvidia B300 chips that were allegedly cleared for export using forged data-center inspection records.
Of those servers, 74 reached China before customs authorities intercepted the remainder, and the defendants include two former Supermicro Taiwan employees and one former Nvidia Taiwan employee facing forgery and breach-of-trust charges.
Unauthorized AI chip exports to China are not currently classified as a criminal offense under Taiwanese law, which shaped the nature of the charges filed.
Adding to the regulatory burden, Supermicro has disclosed receipt of a federal grand jury subpoena along with inquiries from the SEC and the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security.
The company said it “maintains a robust compliance program and continues to work closely with authorities and industry partners to combat diversion and help protect American innovation.”
The scandals have cast a shadow over a company whose fortunes have long been intertwined with Nvidia’s, with co-founder Charles Liang a longtime friend of Jensen Huang, the two having co-founded their respective companies in the same year, 1993.
