A Little-Known Short Seller Flagged Nvidia’s China Ties Months Before The Jensen Huang Scandal

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and alleged Chinese spy Alice Huang. A small New York trading firm warned about Nvidia’s links to China, and about its chief executive’s closeness to a woman now accused of being a Chinese spy, months before the story became public. Almost nobody paid attention at the time. On May 13, Christian Lamarco, a 31-year-old stock researcher and trader, published a 40-page report on Nvidia. Most of it dealt with a dry but important question: was the chipmaker being honest about how much business it does in China? Tucked into the top of page 3 was a…