Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Resigns - CNET

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Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO of $4 trillion chip giant Nvidia, just days after news broke that he was having an affair with a Chinese data center executive alleged to have ties to China’s intelligence community.

The company named Colette Kress, its chief financial officer, as interim CEO. Nvidia confirmed the news in a press release Thursday morning.

As reported Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal, the removal of Huang as CEO follows the revelation over the weekend that the company’s board of directors had opened an investigation into whether the company’s chief executive and founder had been targeted by foreign intelligence.

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Huang had been revealed to be having an affair with Alice Huang (no relation), a Chinese citizen and executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data center company that buys chips from Nvidia to run data centers that sell computing power to Chinese AI labs....

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