Nvidia will open an investigation into reports that CEO Jensen Huang was the “target of a foreign intelligence operation,” according to the company’s board of directors this Sunday.
The announcement came after Huang acknowledged to the board that he had been in a relationship intimate with a business executive which U.S. intelligence determined was collecting information for Beijing, reported The New York Times.
Huang se apologized in a message addressed to the company, according to the newspaper. “I was unfaithful to my wife,” he declared. “My actions they hurt to her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. “I am deeply sorry.”
Nvidia’s board of directors said in a statement that it “has no reason to believe that any compromised national security or Nvidia’s secrets,” but that its investigation will examine all available information. Huang “fully supports the review and is committed to cooperating with it,” the board said.
Huang, 63, will follow in his position of CEO during the investigation.
The New York Times reported last month that U.S. intelligence agencies had discovered that Huang had developed a close relationship with Alice Huang, a Chinese national and chip buyer, and determined that she passed information directly to Beijing. They both have no kinshipaccording to the newspaper.
Alice Huang had previously worked as a television reporter in China before becoming a senior executive at Megaspeed, a hub company. data based in Singapore that has become one of Nvidia’s largest customers in Southeast Asia. Megaspeed purchased more than $4.8 billion worth of Nvidia chips over the past two years, according to the newspaper.
Source: www.univision.com
