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- 0:00Official information is what it is;
- 0:01don't settle for casual assumptions.
- 0:02It’s time to catch everyone up on the
- 0:03gossip about Boss Huang; this situation
- 0:04is the perfect opportunity to dive into
- 0:05the industry scoop. Let's briefly
- 0:07summarize what happened. Although this
- 0:08story has been circulating for two days
- 0:10, Jensen Huang wrote a letter to all
- 0:11employees the day before yesterday. What
- 0:13did he admit? He admitted to personal
- 0:14indiscretions, saying he let down his
- 0:16family and everyone else. Why does this
- 0:18sound like something a gambler in a
- 0:19mid-life crisis would say? On the same
- 0:21day, Nvidia's board announced the
- 0:22formation of a special committee to
- 0:24investigate one thing: assessing whether
- 0:26their own leader had become a target of
- 0:28foreign intelligence operations. Just a
- 0:30few days prior, the chairs of three U.S.
- 0:32House committees sent him a joint letter
- 0:34, demanding he provide a closed-door
- 0:36briefing on October 18 th—a date that is
- 0:38quite interesting, as it coincides
- 0:40exactly with the AI fair in Shenzhen.
- 0:41The whole internet is telling the same
- 0:43story these days: a beautiful spy using
- 0:45a honey trap to take down a billionaire
- 0:47. We won't cover that today; instead,
- 0:49we’ll look at the ledger. My assessment
- 0:51? This female protagonist is not a
- 0:53lone-wolf spy, and Huang is not just
- 0:55some leather-jacketed old lecher blinded
- 0:57by beauty. What is this, really? It’s a
- 0:59deal where both sides calculated
- 1:00everything clearly. The subject? $ 4.8
- 1:02billion worth of chips. Why did he feel
- 1:04compelled to make this deal? The answer
- 1:05lies at the peak of this AI cycle.
- 1:07Before we begin, let’s clearly define
- 1:09the boundaries of the evidence. Where
- 1:10did this "spy" label come from? It
- 1:12started with media reports citing a
- 1:14classified U.S. intelligence memo, still
- 1:15speculating that she was recruited by
- 1:17Chinese state security. Yet, to this day
- 1:19, neither the U.S. nor Singapore has
- 1:21charged her with espionage. Singapore’s
- 1:23Ministry of Home Affairs even issued a
- 1:24clarification. They stated they never
- 1:26investigated her as a spy, and the U.S.
- 1:28is merely investigating the company
- 1:30behind her. So, is she a spy? That’s not
- 1:32something we can definitively answer,
- 1:33but the path she’s walked cannot be
- 1:35hidden. Today, we aren't chasing spy
- 1:36rumors; we are following the paper trail
- 1:38—from Chinese court rulings and exchange
- 1:40announcements to business records in
- 1:41Singapore and Malaysia, plus a Wall
- 1:43Street short-seller's investigative
- 1:44report. Of course, short-selling
- 1:46agencies make money by stirring up
- 1:47trouble. I’ll pick out the information
- 1:48they’ve released to discuss separately,
- 1:50and you can decide for yourselves what
- 1:51to believe. Let’s start with the
- 1:52protagonist, Huang Le, who goes by the
- 1:53English name Ice. She’s in her early 40s
- 1:55and is from Hunan. What kind of status
- 1:56does she hold? She has permanent
- 1:57residency in Hong Kong. What did her
- 1:59early resume claim? She claimed to have
- 2:01been a reporter for Hunan Satellite TV
- 2:02and CCTV, but when the New York Times
- 2:03later asked Hunan Satellite TV, the
- 2:04answer they got was that they had never
- 2:05heard of this person. Her subsequent
- 2:07path is even more interesting. According
- 2:09to her own public resume, as a liberal
- 2:10arts master’s graduate in media, she
- 2:12went straight into a foreign private
- 2:13bank in 2008, worked her way up to Vice
- 2:14President, and then jumped to CITIC
- 2:16Securities in 2013 to be a VP in finance
- 2:17. Today I’m going to share some gossip
- 2:19with you: what exactly do these two
- 2:20roles do in an investment bank? Anyone
- 2:22who understands the rules of Chinese
- 2:23investment banking knows how these
- 2:24private banking and wealth management
- 2:25businesses really work. Most of the time
- 2:27, they just hire an outsider with
- 2:28connections and slap a "VP"—that is,
- 2:30Vice President—title on them. What do
- 2:32they hire them for? It’s not to have you
- 2:33sit in an office calculating models. The
- 2:35unspoken rule is to take business cards
- 2:36to dinner parties, accompany the big
- 2:37shots, and build networks. What was the
- 2:38Hong Kong private bank she was in really
- 2:39doing at the time? It was helping
- 2:41mainland bosses move money across
- 2:42borders. And the department at CITIC
- 2:43handling stock pledges—the one lending
- 2:44to big players with leverage—what kind
- 2:45of work was that really? It was building
- 2:47bridges between the powerful and the
- 2:48capital. So her real skill was never
- 2:49finance; it was making connections. To
- 2:51put it bluntly, what was she? She was a
- 2:53broker. And it was at CITIC that she met
- 2:55her future boss. When he was at Shanghai
- 2:57Hexi Investment, Kang Wei was once known
- 2:58as the youngest mutual fund manager in
- 3:00China. After the 2015 stock market crash
- 3:02, she left CITIC and went straight to
- 3:03Hexi as an Executive Director. What role
- 3:05did she actually play at Hexi? This
- 3:07requires discussing another history of
- 3:08litigation. Hexi later got into a bonus
- 3:10lawsuit with another partner. To win,
- 3:12they submitted internal documents to the
- 3:14court. What did the documents show? Kang
- 3:16Wei made the final call to designate
- 3:17that 25%of Hexi's equity be transferred
- 3:19to Huang Le's name for her to hold. In
- 3:202016, he partnered with Kang Wei’s
- 3:22company to register a new firm with a
- 3:23registered capital of 600 million, and
- 3:24he served as the legal representative.
- 3:26Just one month later, this new company
- 3:28took 48%of Hexi’s shares. In the
- 3:30evidence, what was Hexi directly called
- 3:31? It was called the holding platform for
- 3:33legal representative Huang Le. Now,
- 3:34here’s the issue: he had four funds
- 3:36under his name, but in the fund filing
- 3:37records, he didn't even have the
- 3:39qualifications to manage them. Despite
- 3:40lacking the credentials, he was listed
- 3:42as the manager, and nearly half of
- 3:43Hexi’s shares were held in his name.
- 3:45This type of arrangement is a classic "
- 3:46white glove" tactic—putting it bluntly,
- 3:48he was just a frontman to hold shares
- 3:49and sign documents for the real boss.
- 3:51There’s no need to elaborate on his
- 3:52relationship with Kang Wei; seeing this
- 3:54, I can conclude that Huang is a
- 3:55template—a template for someone who can
- 3:56go to any lengths and climb the ladder
- 3:58through men. This is the ecosystem of
- 3:59China's investment banking sector. By
- 4:01the way, I’d like to correct a widely
- 4:03circulated claim online. They say that
- 4:04for this 25%equity, he directly went to
- 4:06court and had a falling out with Kang
- 4:07Wei. In reality, the verdict clearly
- 4:09states that the one who sued Kang Wei
- 4:10was another partner, and he was only
- 4:11mentioned in the evidence as the
- 4:13transferee. So, what is a "white glove’s
- 4:15" most useful skill? It’s being able to
- 4:17ensure the boss behind the scenes stays
- 4:18clean when trouble arises. He once
- 4:20helped Feicui’s boss, Guo Ping, leverage
- 4:21a buyout of an A-share listed company,
- 4:22involving 1.8 billion in total, and even
- 4:24the shareholding was...So much so that
- 4:25not a single public announcement was
- 4:27ever made. In early 2018, an annual
- 4:28meeting resulted in fines; Hexi and Kang
- 4:30Wei were fined 18.1 million. The mess
- 4:31Feicui later got into was even bigger.
- 4:33Feicui later tied itself to a wealth
- 4:34management platform called something
- 4:35like Lin Finance, which eventually
- 4:37collapsed. The court determined the
- 4:38illegal fundraising amount was over 83
- 4:39billion, and Guo Ping was sentenced to
- 4:41life in prison. As for Huang Le, who
- 4:42directly participated in the project, he
- 4:44withdrew from the holding platform in
- 4:45July 2017 before the fines were issued,
- 4:47and he also stepped down as the legal
- 4:48representative. The person who took over
- 4:50was also surnamed Huang, named Huang
- 4:52Yuyu. The business registry shows that
- 4:54these two individuals co-founded a
- 4:55company over a decade ago, which is why
- 4:57his name never appeared on any penalty
- 4:59lists or in subsequent legal proceedings
- 5:01. He simply used his Hong Kong identity
- 5:03to move on. Let’s look at his first
- 5:05venture after going overseas, and we’ll
- 5:07clearly see how he pulled this off. The
- 5:09story begins with a small gaming company
- 5:11. In 2015, a listed company called
- 5:12Century Huatong spent 4 million to
- 5:14acquire a startup. At that time, the
- 5:16company had only been around for a month
- 5:17, and suddenly, good news arrived.
- 5:19Honestly, even Buffett would be
- 5:20intimidated by Huang Le's track record.
- 5:22After acquiring the company, its profits
- 5:24suddenly skyrocketed, helping Century
- 5:25Huatong’s subsidiary exceed its
- 5:27projected gambling targets. What is a "
- 5:29gambling agreement"? It’s like a
- 5:30military pledge signed during an
- 5:31acquisition: if you meet the target, I
- 5:33pay you; if you don't, you compensate me
- 5:34. But as soon as the gambling period
- 5:36ended, the profits plummeted by 70%, and
- 5:38it immediately became a total mess. Yet
- 5:39, just at that moment, a Hexi
- 5:41partnership suddenly stepped in with 500
- 5:43million to take over. Something worth 4
- 5:44million was resold for 500 million, and
- 5:46this deal alone pulled Century Huatong
- 5:48from a profit decline that year to a 55
- 5:50%surge. Of course, Hexi isn't naive;
- 5:52they were just waiting for the next act
- 5:53. What was that next act? By 2019, this
- 5:55asset was bundled with other gaming
- 5:57companies to be sold to a Hong
- 5:59Kong-listed company called 7th Road. The
- 6:01price doubled to 1 billion RMB, and the
- 6:02deal required a full cash settlement.
- 6:04The problem is that Huatong had already
- 6:06invested in 7th Road; the two sides were
- 6:07considered strategic partners. Selling
- 6:09it directly would easily be seen as what
- 6:10? Selling it directly would easily be
- 6:12scrutinized as a related-party
- 6:13transaction, so what could they do?
- 6:14Huang Le registered a shell company in
- 6:16the British Virgin Islands. The assets
- 6:17were first transferred to her name, and
- 6:19after 23 days, she signed the contract
- 6:21with 7th Road. In the Hong Kong Stock
- 6:22Exchange announcement, 7th Road stated
- 6:24in black and white that Ms. Huang Le was
- 6:25an independent third party. Yet, the
- 6:27same announcement also stated that the
- 6:29Hexi partnership was the ultimate
- 6:30controller of these assets and an
- 6:31acting-in-concert party with Huang Le.
- 6:33Now, that’s interesting. Since these two
- 6:35statements are in the same document,
- 6:36isn't that a classic case of
- 6:37transferring benefits? Starting with 4
- 6:39million in assets, he moved it through
- 6:40two transactions into a billion-dollar
- 6:42cash deal, and in the end, he remained
- 6:43the ultimate beneficial owner.
- 6:44Furthermore, it's said that when the
- 6:46gaming business hit a wall, Huang Le and
- 6:47his group of capital players shifted
- 6:49tracks, but their tactics remained
- 6:51exactly the same. In October '22, the
- 6:52U.S. began restricting high-end IC
- 6:54exports, and five months later, 7Road
- 6:56sold its Singapore-based gaming
- 6:58subsidiary to Huang's offshore company,
- 7:00renaming it MASED. They changed their
- 7:02main website from gaming to real-time
- 7:03events, positioning themselves as a
- 7:04cloud service provider. But there was a
- 7:06hitch: having a Chinese owner and a
- 7:07Chinese gaming background made it nearly
- 7:09impossible to pass NVIDIA's client
- 7:11background checks. So, in 2023, a
- 7:13Singaporean businessman based in
- 7:15Shanghai registered a new company. Just
- 7:17before the U.S. chip sanctions took
- 7:19effect on November 10th, the entire
- 7:20stake was transferred under this new
- 7:22entity. Huang Le then resigned as a
- 7:24director on the same day, and just four
- 7:26days later, the company secured official
- 7:28NVIDIA Cloud Partner status. What is
- 7:29this qualification for? It serves as
- 7:31NVIDIA’s stamp of approval on the market
- 7:33, allowing them to procure high-end
- 7:35chips. From then on, no matter who asked
- 7:36, NVIDIA would respond: "This company
- 7:38has no Chinese shareholders." But what
- 7:40did the short-selling firm Copper find,
- 7:41citing comments from current employees?
- 7:43They claimed that Huang Le was, in fact
- 7:45, still their boss. Another point of
- 7:46suspicion is: Where did the money for
- 7:48the chips come from? After all, 4.8
- 7:49billion is no small amount—in U.S.
- 7:51dollars, no less. The following data
- 7:52comes from public corporate records,
- 7:54customs logs, and financial statements
- 7:55unearthed by the short-selling firm. By
- 7:56the end of 2023, MASED had only $ 572 in
- 7:58cash on its books. Over the next two
- 8:00years, its Malaysian subsidiary imported
- 8:02nearly $ 4.8 billion worth of NVIDIA
- 8:03equipment, more than half of which were
- 8:05the latest restricted models. Doing $
- 8:064.8 billion in business with $ 570 in
- 8:08capital—that's a leverage of over 800
- 8:10times. Shouldn't we wonder who fronted
- 8:11the money? Well, the company’s accounts
- 8:13are very interesting. By the end of 2024
- 8:15, a line item for over $ 2.9 billion in
- 8:16"receivable refundable deposits"
- 8:18suddenly appeared. Who was it paid to?
- 8:19Where is the answer hidden? Hidden in
- 8:21Malaysian business filings, on June 18,
- 8:232024, this Malaysian subsidiary
- 8:24transferred all existing and future
- 8:26equipment—note that future equipment
- 8:28didn't even exist yet, but even if it
- 8:29was just thin air, it was all assigned
- 8:31to a Singaporean company called Apex.
- 8:33What do the Singaporean records show?
- 8:35Singaporean records show that Apex is
- 8:36controlled by Alibaba, and its
- 8:37registered business is described in a
- 8:39single phrase: providing procurement
- 8:40services. Let’s look at who supplied the
- 8:42goods: over $ 4 billion worth came from
- 8:44a California server company called IV.
- 8:46You’ve likely never heard the name, but
- 8:48you’ve definitely heard of the original
- 8:50: Inspur Systems. Its parent company is
- 8:52the famous Inspur Group, which was added
- 8:54to the U.S. Entity List—the blacklist—
- 8:56in March 2023, only to change its name
- 8:58two months later. Why wasn't it blocked
- 9:00as well? Because what is the rule for
- 9:01the U.S. blacklist? A subsidiary is only
- 9:03automatically blocked if the parent
- 9:05company owns 50%or more. Inspur Group
- 9:07used a holding company to keep its stake
- 9:09at exactly one-third, staying just under
- 9:11the 50%red line. When we piece these
- 9:13files together, the structure of this
- 9:14channel becomes clear: Alibaba provided
- 9:16the funds, the U.S. Inspur company
- 9:17provided the hardware, the Singaporean
- 9:19shell company acted as the front, the
- 9:20chips sat in a Malaysian data center,
- 9:22the computing power was leased to China
- 9:24via the network, and Huang Le was the
- 9:25architect of the entire process. Even
- 9:27though the chips didn't enter China, the
- 9:28computing power did. But did Huang Le
- 9:30violate the regulations? Actually, he
- 9:32didn’t. At the time, this was a gray
- 9:33area in U.S. export controls; there was
- 9:35no explicit ban. But the Americans were
- 9:37also scratching their heads, wondering:
- 9:38did the computing power get through? But
- 9:40didn't the chips get in? They started
- 9:41conducting on-site inspections, and once
- 9:43they did, the books didn't add up. At
- 9:45the end of 2024, U.S. Department of
- 9:46Commerce officials inspected the
- 9:48Malaysian data center and what did they
- 9:49find? They saw large quantities of
- 9:51equipment still sealed in boxes,
- 9:52completely unopened. Furthermore, the
- 9:53number of chips in the data center
- 9:55didn't match the customs records. What
- 9:56did the customs records show? They
- 9:57showed 136,000 Nvidia chips, but after
- 9:59Nvidia sent people to take inventory,
- 10:00they only found a few thousand of the
- 10:01latest-generation chips in the room.
- 10:03What was Nvidia’s explanation?
- 10:04Everything not yet installed is kept in
- 10:05the warehouse, and we’ve counted it all
- 10:07. There’s no evidence showing it was
- 10:08shipped to China, but how many units are
- 10:09actually in the warehouse? He doesn’t
- 10:11even have a job. That research firm
- 10:12mentioned something else: back in April
- 10:14, a data center owned by BN Capital
- 10:16liquidated MS, and the reason was
- 10:17laughable—they discovered the racks were
- 10:19filled with dummy servers, just empty
- 10:21shells for show, like those fake books
- 10:23on a shelf. The real hardware had
- 10:24already been moved out. However, this is
- 10:26information cited by the research firm,
- 10:28and I’ll mark it as such as usual. This
- 10:29brings up an unavoidable question.
- 10:31Nvidia’s quarterly revenue is around $
- 10:3396 billion, so you might wonder, is it
- 10:35really worth it for them to authorize a
- 10:37suspicious firm for $ 4.8 billion? Was
- 10:39it worth having the boss himself show up
- 10:40to endorse it? Is it really worth it?
- 10:42I’ll tell you, it is absolutely worth it
- 10:43, because the answer isn’t in Singapore
- 10:45, but in North America. The machine
- 10:46powering Nvidia is starting to show
- 10:48cracks this year. And what is that
- 10:49machine? It’s the circular capital we
- 10:50discussed before; I call it "stepping on
- 10:51your own left foot to lift your right."
- 10:53Look, Nvidia, venture capitalists, and
- 10:54private equity firms get together and
- 10:55pour money into startups and compute
- 10:57leasing companies. These companies then
- 10:58take that money and use it entirely to
- 11:00buy Nvidia chips. In other words, the
- 11:01invested money circles right back into
- 11:02their own revenue. We’ve covered this
- 11:04specifically before, so I won't go into
- 11:05too much detail today. This year, that
- 11:07loop is starting to break at both ends.
- 11:09Let’s look at the equity side first: in
- 11:10the first half of this year, global AI
- 11:12startups raised $ 40.7 billion in
- 11:13venture capital, which set a record. But
- 11:15don’t be fooled by the scale; the
- 11:16capital structure is highly concentrated
- 11:18. How concentrated? OpenAI and Anthropic
- 11:20alone took over $ 21.7 billion, which is
- 11:22more than half of it. Even though the
- 11:24total funding didn't decrease, most of
- 11:25it just went into the pockets of these
- 11:26two companies. For the rest of the vast
- 11:28number of small and medium-sized
- 11:29companies, financing is getting harder
- 11:30...Let’s look at the debt side:
- 11:31CoreWeave, the leader in compute leasing
- 11:32, had $ 2.6 billion in Q2 revenue but $
- 11:339.4 billion in capital expenditures.
- 11:35That massive gap is all covered by debt
- 11:36. Just look at the interest expenses—
- 11:38isn't it terrifying? It reached $ 640
- 11:39million in a single quarter. What does
- 11:41that even mean? That means for every
- 11:42four dollars, one dollar has to go
- 11:44toward interest payments. Then, in the
- 11:45middle of last month, its bond yield
- 11:47surged to 15%to 16%. What does this
- 11:49figure translate to? The market is
- 11:50already pricing in the possibility that
- 11:52this company won't be able to pay back
- 11:53its debt. As everyone knows, another
- 11:54portion of Nvidia's revenue comes from
- 11:56cloud giants like Amazon, Google, and
- 11:57Microsoft. However, the situation on
- 11:59that front is even more intense. Goldman
- 12:01Sachs released a report on September
- 12:0224th stating that the projected total
- 12:04capital expenditure for these four, plus
- 12:05Meta and Speedx (xAI), is expected to
- 12:07reach $ 86 billion, which is almost
- 12:08double compared to last year. Goldman
- 12:10Sachs then did the math on the
- 12:11break-even point. Look, considering the
- 12:13rapid depreciation of AI chips and
- 12:14servers, if you amortize the massive
- 12:16capital expenditure over their lifespans
- 12:17, these six companies need to earn an
- 12:19additional $ 308 billion a year just to
- 12:21cover the depreciation of their hardware
- 12:22. Mind you, that's just to break even;
- 12:24not a single cent of profit yet. So,
- 12:26what is the reality? Based on the
- 12:27second-quarter books, the annualized
- 12:29cloud revenue growth for these cloud
- 12:30providers in 2024 is only around $ 70
- 12:32billion. Even if we count the
- 12:33third-quarter reports released at the
- 12:34end of October, that number just barely
- 12:36reached around $ 100 billion. It is
- 12:37still over $ 200 billion short of the $
- 12:39308 billion break-even line, and this
- 12:40happens every year. So, how is this gap
- 12:42filled? Isn't it always by finding ways
- 12:44to manipulate the books first? Microsoft
- 12:45is very cunning. As early as July, they
- 12:47changed their accounting estimates,
- 12:48extending the useful life of their data
- 12:50center buildings from 15 to 25 years.
- 12:51The buildings are the same, but their
- 12:52useful life has been extended, so the
- 12:54annual depreciation cost is reduced.
- 12:55Consequently, the reported capital
- 12:57expenditure on the books dropped by $ 15
- 12:59billion. What is the situation now? It
- 13:00means the money to buy the shovel has
- 13:02already been spent, but the gold being
- 13:03dug up isn't even enough to cover the
- 13:04depreciation of that shovel. Furthermore
- 13:05, there is now a classic signal of a
- 13:07cycle peak, and that signal is a surge
- 13:08in mergers and acquisitions. Let me
- 13:10briefly explain why, generally speaking
- 13:11, a surge in mergers and acquisitions
- 13:13happens when a cycle is peaking. When an
- 13:15industry's own performance stops growing
- 13:16, the leaders will use their
- 13:18high-valuation stocks or cash to go out
- 13:19and buy growth. What kind of logic is
- 13:21this actually? It's the logic of
- 13:22performance consolidation. When is
- 13:23consolidation needed? The organic growth
- 13:25rate isn't high anymore. Then, on the
- 13:272nd of this month, chip company Marvell
- 13:29announced a $ 1.15 billion all-stock
- 13:31acquisition of a communications company
- 13:32. Did you see the market on the day of
- 13:34the announcement? Both companies '
- 13:36stocks fell, one by 12.7%and the other
- 13:38by 18.6%. Both the buyer and the seller
- 13:40dropped together; this is a clear
- 13:41reflection of market sentiment. Even
- 13:42legacy chip giant Analog Devices
- 13:44recently shelled out $ 7.5 billion in
- 13:46all cash to acquire which company?
- 13:48Wireless chip company Spark Microsystems
- 13:50. The entire semiconductor industry is
- 13:52now relying on these high-priced
- 13:53acquisitions to support their valuations
- 13:54. Now, if we connect these two threads,
- 13:56it becomes clear why that $ 4.8 billion
- 13:58is so valuable. Its gross margin was 75
- 14:00%for the past two quarters, but the Q3
- 14:02guidance has slipped to 74%. There are
- 14:04actually many reasons for this, partly
- 14:06due to rising memory prices, and cloud
- 14:07giants are also making their own chips
- 14:09to divert orders. The revenue
- 14:10contributed by major firms this quarter
- 14:12is only 13%higher than the last. The
- 14:13real growth is coming from another group
- 14:15: those borrowing money to buy GPUs to
- 14:16act as secondary lessors, or those
- 14:18taking on government-funded national
- 14:19projects. This group’s orders jumped by
- 14:2125%, but they have a fatal flaw: they
- 14:22have no money themselves. They rely
- 14:24entirely on borrowing, and sometimes
- 14:25even need Nvidia to step in and
- 14:27guarantee them. Do you remember that
- 14:28move from this past August? Nvidia
- 14:30rounded up six Wall Street institutions
- 14:31for a special project. What does that
- 14:33mean? It means mobilizing $ 500 billion
- 14:34in external capital to help customers
- 14:36buy chips. Jensen Huang even publicly
- 14:37stated that $ 125 billion of that could
- 14:39be backed by Nvidia. What does that mean
- 14:40in plain terms? It means if these chips
- 14:41go unused, sell them to me at a 30%
- 14:42discount. Yes, I'll buy them; I'll take
- 14:44them at a 30%discount. This is very
- 14:45cunning. Now, look back at the Singapore
- 14:47route: Alibaba pays deposits and
- 14:49prepayments, and even pays in full for
- 14:51cash-on-delivery. Nvidia doesn't need to
- 14:53invest a cent of equity or guarantee a
- 14:54cent of debt. This is the cleanest cash
- 14:56in the entire order pool. And what's
- 14:58even better? It’s the accounting method
- 15:00—Nvidia records this revenue based on
- 15:01where the customer's headquarters is
- 15:03registered. You sell your goods to that
- 15:04California company, so the revenue is
- 15:06counted as US income. That’s why in
- 15:08their financial reports, they can very
- 15:09confidently write: "Oh, our revenue from
- 15:11Chinese data centers is assumed to be
- 15:13near zero." But if you look at the
- 15:14breakdown from audit agencies, 20%to 40
- 15:16%of their data center revenue is
- 15:17actually driven by Chinese demand. Let
- 15:19everyone think back: what is the one
- 15:20thing Jensen Huang has been repeating in
- 15:22Washington for the past two years? He
- 15:23says the tighter the restrictions, the
- 15:25faster China will catch up. That is
- 15:26complete and utter. For a
- 15:27state-of-the-art AI chip, over 85%of the
- 15:29design software is controlled by just
- 15:31three Western companies. Look at EUV
- 15:32lithography machines; currently, only
- 15:34ASML in the Netherlands can build them.
- 15:36The bulk of the optical components are
- 15:37Japanese, the lenses are German, the
- 15:39metrology tech is uniquely British, and
- 15:40finally, it has to be sent to TSMC for
- 15:42production and packaging. The technical
- 15:44level required far exceeds the
- 15:45difficulty of building an atomic bomb.
- 15:46Look at China's C919 today; I really
- 15:47don't believe this stuff can just be
- 15:48forced out by throwing money at it.
- 15:50Seriously, no country—not even the US—
- 15:52can do this alone. Thinking they can is
- 15:53a total pipe dream. So, his statement
- 15:55isn't an industry assessment; it's a
- 15:56business strategy. He just wants to
- 15:58protect the demand from his Chinese
- 15:59clients. Therefore, my judgment from
- 16:01start to finish is that this is a mutual
- 16:02exploitation: Huang wants Jensen's face
- 16:04, and Jensen wants Huang's money. I dug
- 16:06up a report from the Taiwanese media two
- 16:07years ago that is quite interesting. It
- 16:09says that in June 2024, Huang was at a
- 16:11computer expo in Taipei. At a client
- 16:12gathering, he said something in front of
- 16:14a high-ranking official: "I bet I can
- 16:15get Jensen to come over." And Jensen
- 16:17actually showed up, sitting there
- 16:18drinking and chatting. Then, in that
- 16:20same month, the documents pledging all
- 16:21equipment to Alibaba's subsidiary were
- 16:23signed, and the massive procurement
- 16:24kicked off. The relationship is very
- 16:25obvious, because Huang's side just wants
- 16:27the orders. I'll add one more thing: I
- 16:28don't know anything about it. In my view
- 16:29, Jensen Huang has already covered his
- 16:31bases with three layers. The first is
- 16:32the shareholder layer: nominally a
- 16:33Singaporean shell company, so on paper,
- 16:35the client has no Chinese shareholders.
- 16:36The second is the delivery or sales
- 16:37layer to that company, but with Malaysia
- 16:39as the destination. Once delivered,
- 16:40revenue is recognized; as for who gets
- 16:41the profit afterward, that's the
- 16:42client’s own business. The third layer
- 16:44is the letter dated October 8th. What
- 16:45was Congress questioning? It was about
- 16:47national security and loopholes in
- 16:48export controls. What is he admitting to
- 16:49now? He’s saying, "I'm sorry, I went too
- 16:51far," but claiming no confidential
- 16:52information was compromised. You see,
- 16:53Jensen isn't stupid; he had everything
- 16:54designed from the transaction structure
- 16:55to the narrative path long ago. So my
- 16:57conclusion is: this isn't a "honey trap
- 16:58" story—at least not a simple one, and
- 17:00certainly not that cliché tale of "
- 17:01Jensen being scared by a CCP operative.
- 17:02" After all, it’s not like Nvidia didn't
- 17:04send people to inspect the site. The
- 17:05findings weren't about the chips ending
- 17:06up in China; they were sitting in
- 17:07warehouses in Malaysia. Furthermore,
- 17:08what is the current sentiment
- 17:09surrounding tech stocks? It’s that as
- 17:11long as your performance doesn't leap
- 17:12upward, even a 1%drop in revenue will
- 17:13cause the stock price to take a nosedive
- 17:15. The reason is simple: current pricing
- 17:16already accounts for growth expectations
- 17:18. Once the growth factor—the biggest
- 17:19contributor to valuation—can no longer
- 17:20push the stock price higher, what
- 17:21follows isn't just a correction, but a
- 17:23total reassessment. I don't believe in
- 17:24conspiracy theories, and I certainly
- 17:25don't believe the CCP could spend ten
- 17:27years cultivating someone just to trick
- 17:28Jensen. Don't we all know the nature of
- 17:29the CCP system by now? They use you when
- 17:31you're useful, and discard you when
- 17:32you're not. Someone in a role like
- 17:33Jensen’s is ultimately just a guest, a
- 17:34transient player. If you tell me he's
- 17:35colluding with the CCP, I’d absolutely
- 17:36believe it. But if you say the CCP
- 17:38cultivated him with a specific long-term
- 17:39plan, I don't buy it—after all, ten
- 17:41years ago, Nvidia hardly had any market
- 17:42status. If the CCP had the foresight to
- 17:44plan something like that, they wouldn't
- 17:45be in the pathetic mess they are today.
- 17:47Alright, that's all for today.
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