The board probably knows more than us random commenters on the internet, but it seems to me his affair with Alice Huang pretty clearly clouded his judgement. NYT, Bloomberg, and Culper Research all reported that MegaSpeed was illegally diverting chips to China.

If the press knew about it, I'm sure Jensen did. More than enough reason to fire him.

What is the message sent if they don't fire him? It's ok to break company policy and sleep with your subordinates? It's ok to turn a blind eye to people breaking the law?

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Numerlor a day ago | parent | next [-]

The Alice Huang relationship has been known about for a longer time, seemingly even by his family.

It more feels like someone wanted him gone. The second affair had to be leaked because after the first one it still appeared he still had a good chance of remaining CEO

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Marazan a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The board backed him after the Alice Huang news. They emergency "voluntarily resigned" him after news of the second affair broke.

It is pretty clear he lied to the board after the first news broke and that is why he was sacked.

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well_ackshually 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>MegaSpeed was illegally diverting chips to China.

Last time I looked, the US's laws weren't applied by default to the whole world, and states remain sovereign. Is there a piece of international law that you know of and the rest of the world does not ?

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macintux 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ok, more accurately, Huang was attempting to prevent the U.S. government from blocking sales to MegaSpeed (and probably violating laws by ignoring the red flags).

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jaredklewis 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Last time you looked the US didn't have export controls that require Nvidia to KYC and not sell its most advanced processors to China? Well, look harder I guess? Checkout the ECRA and the associated executive orders.

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well_ackshually 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Good news MegaSpeed is a Malaysian company then. Unless you're claiming that Malaysia is chinese territory, in which case that's a nice can of geopolitical worms you're opening.

	▲	jaredklewis 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I’m saying that there is widespread reporting that megaspeed is diverting chips to China, and if that is the case it’s illegal for Nvidia to sell to them. Nvidia is required by US law to impose restrictions on its customers and to make an effort to ensure their customers are complying with those restrictions. You seem to think I’m making a novel or wild claim, but this is pretty bog-standard export controls. Just like advanced weapons. You can’t sell missiles to a company in Malaysia if that company is going to resell them North Korea. Go read about alan hao hsu. Literally smuggled Nvidia chips to china through a Malaysian company and is now heading to prison.