Less than two weeks after Nvidia said it had counted every GPU deployed by its Singapore-based customer Megaspeed, the cloud provider has commissioned another inventory, this time through an outside US law firm. The move follows lawmakers’ demands for answers about reported chip purchases and export compliance.
Megaspeed said Thursday that the firm would conduct a “comprehensive census” of its graphics processing units and independently verify its export-control practices. CEO James Tan Yong Pong said the company had cooperated with inspections by the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security and would assist other authorities.
The new review follows an October 29 Bloomberg interview in which Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said, “We’ve studied all their deployments of our GPUs and counted every one.” Huang described Nvidia’s business with Megaspeed as normal and said the chipmaker had checked for illegal diversion to China.
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Megaspeed sells computing capacity rather than simply distributing processors, advertising Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72 and HGX H100 systems. An inventory could establish physical locations and quantities without, by itself, identifying every customer receiving remote access to those systems.
On Wednesday, Democratic Senator Michael Bennet cited reporting that Megaspeed’s Malaysian and Indonesian subsidiaries purchased at least $4.6 billion of advanced Nvidia chips since 2023. His letter called for a federal response to alleged chip diversion and remote access by Chinese users.
Bennet asked officials to report by November 24 on the status of the US investigation, possible restrictions on Megaspeed, and coordination with Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
A separate Reuters investigation linked 29-year-old Kai Kang to Megaspeed entities in the US, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand. The outlet reported that, under 2024 filings, Kang was listed as the sole officer of the US and Australian affiliates, and as a director of three Southeast Asian units.
ABC News had reported that his address on the filings led to an Australian newsagency and lottery outlet, along with Australian regulatory correspondence that could not be delivered to the firm’s Sydney address in January. Reuters later described the Sydney location as a virtual office.
Megaspeed has denied improperly transferring restricted chips to China. Singapore’s government said on October 31 that its investigation into Megaspeed continued, while separately rejecting reports that it had investigated former executive Alice Huang’s alleged intelligence links.
