CEO of Nvidia investigated after extramarital relationship. Understand the case

Nthe end of October was shared an investigation by The New York Times that revlon a “next relationship” co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, with an executive of a data center company based in Singapore, Megaspeed.

This executive, a Chinese citizen named Alice Huang (without any family relationship with the leader of Nvidia) was pointed out by this investigation as a possible spy of the Chinese government, which forced Nvidia to react publicly to the case.

In a statement, Nvidia stated that her CEO's interactions with Alice Huang “they are neither suspicious nor unexpected”, adding that Jensen Huang “talk to thousands of executive customers every year”.

Furthermore, Nvidia said that Megaspeed does not receive sensitive business secrets, stressing that “no different from so many other regional cloud customers”. The company also says that it is “confident that it would be notified if the US government believed that anyone was a threat to American industry”.

With regard to the nature of the relationship between Nvidia and this company, it is important to clarify that Megaspeed had the practice of buying chips from American technology. Later, Megaspeed sold these chips to Artificial Intelligence labs in China – effectively violating US laws, which prohibit Nvidia chips from being sold to Chinese customers. In addition to the fact that U.S. agencies discovered this improper practice, they also realized that Alice Huang was passing information to the Chinese government.

Remember that, over the last few months, Jensen Huang has been one of the most active voices with the Trump administration so that there are no restrictions on the import of Nvidia chips by Chinese companies.

Almost two weeks later, Jensen Huang revealed to the board of directors of Nvidia that he maintained a intimate relationship with Alice, which led the company to open a formal investigation to further investigate the case.

“I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There's no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry”, wrote Jensen Huang in a statement, according to The New York Times.

In a statement, Nvidia’s board of directors stated that it had not “reasons for believing that national security or company secrets have been compromised”, but it said that the investigation will be carried out by an independent committee and will examine all available information.

Jensen Huang “it fully supports the analysis and has committed itself to cooperating with research”, added the board of directors. The 63-year-old businessman will remain as executive president during the investigation.

[News updated at 8:16 AM]