Shashank Joshi(@shashj):.@ChrisRMcGuire on China Talk. "the big question for Congress and for the administration is: how could the Commerce Department have known about this? Have known that Mega Speed is being run by Chinese spies and not done anything to stop the export of chips to them? $4.8 billion worth of chips, and they were sitting on information that said they're being run by Chinese spies, and those spies are actively trying to to penetrate Nvidia at the highest levels. It is baffling to me how they could have sat on that and done nothing..."

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Shashank Joshi@shashj

2026.11.10 18:55

.@ChrisRMcGuire on China Talk. "the big question for Congress and for the administration is: how could the Commerce Department have known about this? Have known that Mega Speed is being run by Chinese spies and not done anything to stop the export of chips to them? $4.8 billion worth of chips, and they were sitting on information that said they're being run by Chinese spies, and those spies are actively trying to to penetrate Nvidia at the highest levels. It is baffling to me how they could have sat on that and done nothing..."