Three Republican committee chairs in the U.S. House of Representatives have formally requested that Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang attend a closed-door joint briefing to address his reported relationship with a businesswoman suspected of spying for China. According to foreign media reports on Nov. 5, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford sent a joint letter to Huang on Nov. 4 requesting his participation. The lawmakers asked Huang to provide details about Nvidia’s security procedures for protecting the company against foreign adversaries, as well as the nature of his interactions with Alice Huang, a Chinese businesswoman also known as Huang Le. The committee chairs said recent reports had raised serious national security concerns over China’s access to sensitive U.S. technology and information. The lawmakers proposed holding the briefing on Nov. 18, the day after Nvidia’s scheduled third-quarter earnings announcement, and asked Huang to confirm by Nov. 11 whether he would accept the invitation or propose an alternative date. The proposed session would be an in-person, closed-door briefing involving all three committees. Alice Huang, a former senior executive at Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed International, is a central figure in the reports prompting the inquiry. The New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence officials had concluded last year that Alice Huang had developed a close relationship with Jensen Huang while providing information to the Chinese government. U.S. authorities have also