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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is facing growing uncertainty over his future at the company following reports of multiple extramarital affairs, one involving a woman suspected of working for Chinese intelligence. While Nvidia’s board is reportedly considering removing Huang from his long-held position, several major figures in the technology industry have come forward to support him. The latest is Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, who believes firing Huang would be a massive mistake.
According to a recent report from The Wall Street Journal, Nvidia is preparing to remove Jensen Huang as CEO, with the company’s board reportedly holding discussions about his future. The news comes just days after Nvidia launched an independent investigation into allegations that Huang had been targeted by a foreign intelligence operation.
Huang has the support of other high-profile tech executives
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney strongly disagrees with the idea of removing Huang, arguing that his leadership has been essential to Nvidia’s success. In a post on X, Sweeney wrote, โSave Jensen.โ He then compared the possibility of Nvidia removing its CEO to one of the most famous leadership decisions in Apple’s history.
โThis would be an Apple firing Steve Jobs level of idiocy from NVIDIAโs board if they did that, and a grievous harm to the United States of America,โ Sweeney wrote. Nvidia and Huang are no stranger to adversity, especially in its earlier years. The co-founder and long-time CEO says the team had afternoons with โnothing to doโ before it transformed the PC gaming landscape.
He also praised Huang’s contributions to the technology industry, describing him as the driving force behind major developments in gaming graphics, CUDA, and artificial intelligence. โThe dude truly is the visionary driver of the future of tech from the gaming GPU era to CUDA to AI supercomputers,โ he added.
Sweeney isn’t the only major technology executive supporting Huang. Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has also expressed his willingness to hire him if he ends up leaving Nvidia, forcibly or not. When an X user suggested that Musk should hire Huang, the billionaire responded, โThat would be an honor.โ
The controversy began after reports emerged that Huang had a relationship with Alice Huang (of no relation), a businesswoman linked to Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed. US intelligence officials reportedly suspect her of working for China, although the allegations have not been publicly proven.
Huang subsequently admitted to being unfaithful to his wife and apologized to his family. Nvidia’s board has announced an independent investigation to determine whether the reported relationship had compromised sensitive company information. The situation, however, became more complicated after other reports alleged that Huang had a separate affair with Kimberly Powell, an Nvidia executive.
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