It was found that in over two years, Huang, also known as Hunag Le, helped move 240,000 banned chips into China, mostly H100 and H200 systems, and was instrumental in securing AI GPU imports to the tune of $7.5 billion.

Alice was born in a rural area of China's Hunan province. She started her career as a journalist with CCTV, China's state-owned broadcaster.

US rules bar direct sales of the chips to China-based companies, so servers are routed to entities in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, and then shipped on to China. Such sales are lawful in themselves, but a US government report names Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore as "permissive jurisdictions" in smuggling cases. Earlier cases followed the same pattern. In November 2025 the Justice Department charged four people with smuggling Nvidia and HP products to China through Thailand and Malaysia.

A Financial Times report traced Alice Huang’s longstanding business relationship with Chinese financier Kang Wei. The links have intensified scrutiny amid Singapore’s investigation into suspected chip smuggling by Megaspeed.

It was found that in over two years, Huang, also known as Hunag Le, helped move 240,000 banned chips into China, mostly H100 and H200 systems, and was instrumental in securing AI GPU imports to the tune of $7.5 billion.