US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has blamed Howard Lutnick’s commerce department for failing to ban exports of Nvidia’s chips to Megaspeed, the Singapore-based company linked to an alleged Chinese…

The Financial Times reported that US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blamed the Commerce Department, led by Howard Lutnick, for failing to block exports of Nvidia chips to Megaspeed, a Singapore-based company linked to an alleged Chinese spy. The core market transmission runs through export-control policy risk: uncertainty over whether advanced AI accelerators can reach Chinese-linked end users directly affects Nvidia's addressable revenue in Asia and the durability of its data-center demand outlook. Nvidia (NVDA) is the most directly exposed equity, since any tightening of licensing or enforcement against intermediaries could constrain shipments routed through third-country distributors. Chinese technology and semiconductor names also carry headline sensitivity, as a visible intra-administration dispute raises the odds of further restrictions on China-linked supply chains. The next concrete catalyst to watch is any Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security entity-list update or formal licensing action referencing Megaspeed or similar Singapore-based intermediaries.

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