U.S. Commerce Dept. Inquiry Into Megaspeed Was Halted After Nvidia Intervention

An investigation into Megaspeed, a Singapore company that was buying advanced Nvidia A.I. chips, was transferred to the Justice Department after a top Nvidia executive reached out to Commerce Department officials.Nvidia said on Sunday that it was opening an investigation into Jensen Huang, after he acknowledged he had been intimate with an executive at a Singaporean company suspected of smuggling chips into China.