Nvidia’s board is set to decide the future of its founder Jensen Huang after revelations that he had a romantic relationship with a company executive, days after it emerged that he had an affair with a suspected Chinese spy.
The board held urgent talks on Wednesday night after news broke of the Nvidia chief executive’s relationship with Kimberly Powell, the chipmaker’s vice-president of healthcare, according to people familiar with the matter.
The relationship with an Nvidia employee deepens an already damaging scandal for the $4.2 trillion semiconductor group. Huang on Sunday admitted to having an affair, two days after the FT reported his romantic links to an executive at an Nvidia client, who US officials believe is a Chinese intelligence asset.
