Two weeks after the US restricted Nvidia’s China chips, a four-month-old Shanghai firm became a ‘preferred partner’ - here’s why the timing matters

A Shanghai company secured Nvidia's Preferred Cloud Partner status just four months after its founding and two weeks after the US expanded chip export restrictions on China. An investigation by The Information has since linked its ownership to Alice Huang's family and examined its place in a wider network handling billions of dollars in Nvidia GPUs.