Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with a second unnamed employee, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters with adding further scrutiny to the leadership crisis at the artificial intelligence chipmaker.
The disclosure follows Huang’s resignation on Thursday after reports surfaced regarding two other extramarital relationships one with Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare, Kimberly Powell and another with Alice Huang whom US intelligence suspects of being a Chinese spy.
Reuters has withheld the identity of the latest employee could not be reached for comment. Nvidia declined to comment while Jensen Huang, Powell, Alice Huang and a company board representative did not respond to inquiries.
Earlier, in a November 8 statement, the 63-year-old married executive acknowledged an affair following reports about Alice Huang, though he did not name her. Nvidia’s board had also launched an independent investigation with outside legal counsel to determine whether Huang was targeted by a foreign intelligence operation.
Following Huang’s departure, the board appointed Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress as interim CEO while evaluating internal and external candidates for a permanent successor.
Huang’s exit threatens to unsettle the global AI ecosystem which Nvidia has heavily shaped by backing cloud providers and AI labs to drive chip adoption. Investor anxiety over the turmoil pushed Nvidia shares down 5.5 percent on Thursday with extending the stock’s decline to more than 30 percent since its early October peak.
