The Commerce Department stopped its investigation into Megaspeed after Nvidia’s general counsel contacted the agents running it, Ana Swanson and Devlin Barrett reported for The New York Times . The case moved to the Justice Department. It is now running a criminal inquiry into the Singapore company, according to people familiar with the matter cited by the Times. TNW has not independently verified the report.

Megaspeed is the Nvidia customer at the centre of the Jensen Huang affair. A day earlier, Nvidia’s board opened an independent investigation into its chief executive. Huang had admitted a relationship with Alice Huang, a former Megaspeed executive. US officials believe she worked for Chinese intelligence. She is not related to him.

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Agents at the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security had spent months on the case, according to the Times.…