The owner of X (Twitter), Tesla, and SpaceX, Elon Musk, commented on the possibility of hiring long-time Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang if the chipmaker's board of directors decides to fire him over the cheating scandal.
The owner of X (Twitter), Tesla, and SpaceX, Elon Musk, commented on the possibility of hiring long-time Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang if the chipmaker's board of directors decides to fire him over the cheating scandal.
This was reported by Business Insider, citing Musk's posts on his social network.
On Wednesday evening, November 11, the financial news account ZeroHedge addressed the billionaire with a brief appeal: “Elon, please hire Jensen.” Musk responded to this post a few hours later, writing: “It would be an honor for me.” At the same time, he did not specify whether this was a real job offer at one of his companies (specifically at xAI or Tesla, which are large buyers of Nvidia chips) or whether this was just a reaction to the discussion on the network.
Musk's remarks came shortly after reports that Nvidia's board of directors was preparing to meet to decide the fate of the 63-year-old founder and CEO . The crisis was sparked by revelations of Huang's two extramarital romantic relationships, one of which was with a potential Chinese spy.
According to US media, one of the novels involved Nvidia's vice president of health care, Kimberly Powell, which violated the company's internal code of conduct. Other relationships are associated with Alice Huang, a former top manager of the Singaporean company Megaspeed International, which the US authorities suspect of illegally shipping sanctioned chips to China and having ties to Chinese intelligence.
Amid the scandal, Huang sent an internal letter to Nvidia employees in which he admitted to the infidelity and apologized to his family, but did not comment on the espionage accusations. China rejected the woman's involvement in the PRC's secret services, calling the publications slander.
Jensen Huang founded Nvidia in 1993 and over three decades has transformed it from a maker of graphics cards for gamers into a major supplier of artificial intelligence chips with a market capitalization of about $4 trillion. The lack of a clear succession plan at the company and news of the possible dismissal of the CEO have caused Nvidia shares to fall by about 8% in over-the-counter trading, and shareholders have already filed a class-action lawsuit against management for concealing information about risks.
