Jensen Huang: Spy row, second affair leaves Nvidia without its rockstar CEO

Jensen Huang, who built Nvidia into the world’s dominant AI chipmaker, is stepping down as CEO after a second affair came to light. DW examines how losing its figurehead will affect the firm and the US-China AI race. Nvidia's board met late Wednesday to decide on CEO Jensen Huang's future after reports emerged of a second extramarital affair — this time with an employee.

In a statement issued on Thursday morning, the world's most valuable chip supplier said Huang was resigning as president, CEO and board member, effective immediately. The New York Times first reported on the latest scandal, alleging that the 63-year-old Huang had an affair a senior Nvidia executive who reported directly to him. The latest revelation emerged just three days after Huang admitted a relationship with a Chinese woman, whom United States intelligence agencies believe was spying for China .

The woman, Alice H., is an executive at Megaspeed , a Singapore-based cloud computing firm that runs artificial intelligence (AI) data centers across Southeast Asia and is a major client of Nvidia.