Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned from his top post at the chipmaker he co-founded, after reports of the tech titan's extramarital affairs came into the spotlight this week.
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One of those relationships has raised national security concerns.
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The New York Times reported that Huang had an affair with a businesswoman U.S. intelligence suspects to be a Chinese spy, which Beijing denies.
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Separately, the outlet and later others reported that Nvidia employees said Huang had another affair with an executive who reported to him directly — compounding calls for him to step down.
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Nvidia announced Huang's resignation on Thursday, effective immediately.
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The California-based company said that Colette Kress — who has been Nvidia's chief financial officer and executive vice president since 2013 — will step into the role of interim CEO.
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The scandal marks the most tumultuous chapter yet for Nvidia, whose high-end chips have emerged as the leading building blocks for artificial intelligence.
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Huang himself has become a key face in the AI race, both across the industry and often on U.S. President Donald Trump’s side in Washington.
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Here's what we know.
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Nvidia said Kress is now interim CEO.
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Prior to joining Nvidia over 13 years ago, Kress worked at Cisco, Microsoft and Texas Instruments.
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In a statement about her new post on Thursday, Kress said Nvidia’s “strength has always come from its people” and that she's “committed to building on the extraordinary foundation Jensen created over the last 33 years.”
Huang co-founded Nvidia, alongside Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, back in 1993 — and until Thursday had led the company ever since, with no clear successor in sight.
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Huang's ouster has led to a scramble for a new permanent CEO, and Nvidia said it's considering both “internal and external candidates.”
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The company's board of directors also said Thursday that it has named its first-ever chairman, Harvey C. Jones.
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Over the weekend, following news reports of Huang's relationship with a woman identified as former Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, Nvidia's then-CEO apologized for being “unfaithful to my wife.”
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"My actions hurt her and our children,” Huang wrote in a Sunday email to employees, adding that his colleagues also “deserve better” from him.
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Neither Huang nor Nvidia identified who he had been intimate with by name, but the apology arrived shortly after Nvidia said it was investigating whether Huang had been “the target of a foreign intelligence effort.”
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Last month, the Times reported that U.S. intelligence agencies discovered Nvidia’s Huang had developed a close relationship with Alice Huang, who also goes by the name Huang Le — and determined she was feeding information directly to Beijing.
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she → report → Beijing
(Huang is a common surname and the two are not related).
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Nvidia initially maintained Huang would stay on as CEO as the company conducted its investigation.
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But scrutiny grew late Wednesday after reports emerged that Huang had a separate affair with an Nvidia executive.
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Huang’s resignation arrived shortly after.
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The company didn't address either relationship in its Thursday announcement.
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Later on Thursday, Reuters reported Huang had an intimate relationship with a second employee, citing unidentified sources.
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Where investigations stand
Nvidia hasn't provided any notable new updates in its internal review announced Sunday.
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At the time, the company said it had “no reason to believe” that either national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised, but that its inquiry would examine all available information.
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Trump was reportedly briefed about intelligence findings involving Huang well before the scandal erupted publicly.
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But when asked over the weekend whether he wished he had acted sooner on that information, the president said “I don’t think so” and maintained that Nvidia’s CEO was an “honorable guy.”
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Trump later said the FBI is looking into Huang's affair with Alice Huang, although where exactly that probe stands is unclear.
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Meanwhile, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill are calling for further investigations.
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Many eyes have been on Nvidia’s ties to Singapore-based Megaspeed International, which prominently touts the companies’ partnership on its website.
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Last year, Megaspeed was accused of illicitly shipping advanced Nvidia computer chips into China, but in December said there was “no evidence” of such exports.
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On Thursday, Megaspeed maintained it takes its obligation to comply with American export control laws “extremely seriously" — and that it was committed to working “constructively and transparently” with the U.S. government.
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Singaporean authorities said they questioned Alice Huang and confiscated her passport last year as part of an investigation into Megaspeed.
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They concluded there wasn’t enough evidence that she had committed a crime, but suspected she provided “inaccurate information” to downplay her role at Megaspeed.
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Malaysia said Friday it was investigating whether any of the chips brought into Malaysia by Megaspeed or its Malaysian affiliate Speedmatrix had been reexported to other country.
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China, meanwhile, has denied that it attempted to ensnare Jensen Huang.
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Its Foreign Ministry earlier this week called the spying allegations “unsubstantiated” and said they amount to a smear campaign against Beijing.
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Trump continues his praise for Huang
Huang has maintained a close relationship to Trump throughout the Republican president’s second term in office.
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He’s successfully lobbied for looser AI regulation overall — including less strict limits on sales of Nvidia chips to China.
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