Breaking News: Jensen Huang is Out

On October 8, President Donald Trump presented Jensen Huang with the National Medal of Science. The citation honored him for turning a chip designed to draw pictures into a tool for scientific discovery. Exactly five weeks later, on November 12, he resigned as Nvidia’s president, chief executive and board member.

Four days earlier, after Huang acknowledged being unfaithful, Nvidia’s directors had publicly backed him and opened an inquiry into whether a foreign intelligence service had targeted him. Then came a report of another affair, with a senior executive who answered to him. The board named finance chief Colette Kress interim CEO. For the first time since 1993, someone other than Huang runs Nvidia.

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