On Monday, a day after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang acknowledged he’d had an affair with a woman that U.S. officials believe is a Chinese spy, the biggest question was whether he could remain CEO. Three days later, we know the answer to that: This morning, after The New York Times disclosed that he had also had an affair with an Nvidia subordinate, he tendered his resignation. The biggest question now is whether he has committed a federal crime.
The tabloids might be right that the heart of the issue is Jensen Huang’s mistress, Alice Huang, but ironically the bigger scandal might have less to do with whether she’s a Chinese asset and more to do with her alleged “legend,” or cover—being the top executive of a Singaporean front company running a sophisticated operation to evade U.S. export controls and get Nvidia’s most advanced chips into China.
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