Donald Trump really wants Tim Cook to run Nvidia
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Jensen Huang resigned Thursday as Nvidia's chief executive, president and board member, four days after the company opened an investigation into his affair with an alleged Chinese intelligence asset, Wired reported.
Finance chief Colette Kress is interim CEO, and the board said it will look at both inside and outside candidates for the permanent job.
The affair involved Alice Huang, a Megaspeed executive whom U.S. officials suspect of working for China's intelligence services; she has no known family link to Huang, and Beijing has rejected the spy claims.
The New York Times also reported a second affair, with Nvidia health care executive Kimberly Powell, and Powell did not respond to requests for comment, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Nvidia shares fell almost 8% in premarket trading Thursday, per the Journal; Huang owns about 3.6% of the company.
A source told Wired that the alleged relationship with a subordinate and the Megaspeed dealings probably weighed more in the board's decision than the espionage allegations.
“I was unfaithful to my wife.”
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