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By Maheen Hernandez
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The Intermediary Network Culper Named. Culper's report got specific. It named Singapore's Megaspeed, Malaysia's Speedmatrix, and Giga…
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Taiwan Raids an Nvidia Employee's Home. July brought the first hard legal action. Taiwanese prosecutors searched both the home and…
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What This Means for Nvidia's Valuation. For traders and investors, the Culper short is a reminder of how fast regulatory exposure can…
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Culper Research called it early. The short seller bet against Nvidia after suspecting the chipmaker was quietly funneling AI chip sales into China through neighboring countries —…
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Jensen Huang told investors in November 2025 that Nvidia's China sales would be zero for the foreseeable future, pointing to U.S. export control measures as the reason.
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Culper's report got specific. It named Singapore's Megaspeed, Malaysia's Speedmatrix, and Giga Computing — a subsidiary of Taiwan's Gigabyte — as key players in what it described…
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And then there's the quote that probably made Nvidia's legal team nervous. A former high-level Nvidia employee — no name given in the report — told Culper that Megaspeed was "the…
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Nvidia pushed back. The company said it had conducted global data center tests to check compliance and wasn't bypassing export regulations.
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July brought the first hard legal action. Taiwanese prosecutors searched both the home and workplace of an Nvidia employee accused of smuggling restricted chips to China.
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The timing made people pay attention. A CEO-level meeting with a senior U.S. trade official on the exact day domestic prosecutors are raiding one of your employees' homes is the…
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The raids put Nvidia's regional operations under a spotlight that's hard to dim. Taiwanese authorities don't conduct residential searches lightly — that kind of escalation…
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For traders and investors, the Culper short is a reminder of how fast regulatory exposure can reprice a stock. Culper spotted the discrepancy before any legal action was public.
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Nvidia's denial holds for now, but the investigation is still moving. Taiwanese prosecutors are clearly not done.
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