Nvidia General Counsel Tim Teter intervened in a US Commerce Department chip smuggling investigation into Megaspeed International in late summer 2025, calling Under Secretary Jeffrey Kessler to ask whether the Bureau of Industry and Security was involved in Singapore’s detention of Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, Bloomberg and the New York Times reported. Teter subsequently emailed BIS investigators citing Kessler’s permission, prompting officials to halt the Commerce inquiry and transfer the case to the Justice Department for a criminal probe. Trade records analyzed by Bloomberg also showed Nvidia’s tabulations to the US government undercounted chips sold to Singapore-based Megaspeed via hardware partners by 50,000 units worth billions of dollars, while Teter insisted inside Nvidia as recently as last week that claims of an affair between CEO Jensen Huang and Alice Huang were inaccurate.