To be honest, I think it smells like chic. And here is the reason:
1. Nvidia itself pressed for the removal of restrictions on sending chips to China - for the corporation this is an additional and very serious source of income. No need to make up stories about Chinese spies here; Everything is explained much more simply by Nvidia's own desire to make money.
2. For China, in a way, the US sanctions have become beneficial - because Huawei has been dumping weaker, but mass-produced Ascend chips, which have captured more than 50% of the Chinese market. Furthermore, China is already slowly banning Nvidia chips where possible.
3. The feeling that the media in the US wants to create hype "China is nothing without American chips, and Huang is betraying the US, when in fact the opposite is true - Nvidia lost the Chinese market by its own hands, with the help of the US government. In two or three years, China itself will ban Nvidia imports.
4. If there was espionage, it was technological - but the media only talks about Nvidia's underground sales to China. Now, if they were talking about stealing some paintings and technologies, then fine. But the secret sale of chips is ridiculous; China would not introduce such a high level agent for this.
To be honest, 300 IQ is more like a chess game - in the US they realize that in a few years China, just like with cars, will overtake them in the chip race. And under this case, they laid the straw: “Well, you see, they extracted data through Huang through espionage, but otherwise they themselves were unable to do anything. ".