The Jensen Huang scandal continues to snowball.
The Nvidia founder had an “intimate relationship” with an unnamed second Nvidia employee, Reuters reported on Thursday. Nvidia declined to comment.
The latest revelation deepens an extramarital affair scandal that has rocked the chipmaking company for the past two weeks — and ultimately led to Huang resigning as CEO on Thursday.
The report of a second employee relationship raises more questions about how much Nvidia knew about Huang’s behavior and how it’s navigated the situation.
In late October, The New York Times first reported that Huang had a “close relationship” with Alice Huang, an executive at Singapore-based tech firm Megaspeed. The Times reported that the US government believed she was a spy for the Chinese government. China has said the allegations that she is a spy are unsubstantiated.
On Sunday, Huang wrote a memo to staff, apologizing for being “unfaithful to my wife.” He did not name anyone.
On Wednesday, The Times reported that Huang also had another affair with Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of healthcare and the CEO’s direct report.
Huang’s resignation a day later capped a 33-year career at the chipmaker that he founded in 1993. The Nvidia founder grew the company from a maker of graphics chips for gamers into the most consequential supplier of AI hardware, becoming one of the world’s wealthiest people in the process.
