SENIOR REPUBLICAN ON US SENATE BANKING PANEL CALLS ON NVIDIA CEO HUANG TO RESIGN
Republican US Senator Kevin Cramer from the Senate Banking Committee has called on Jensen Huang to step down as Nvidia CEO after revelations of the tech executive's affair with a Chinese businesswoman alleged to be a spy for Beijing.
"The potential for extortion is so tremendous that something as sensitive as Nvidia chips, I just think he's got to go," Cramer told Politico late on Tuesday. "If the worst thing he did in real life is infidelity with this woman who may or may not be a Chinese spy — but she might be — that's enough, because whatever else there is, we don't know. And to me, that's a security risk." The CEO is facing an investigation by the AI chipmaker's board after a New York Times report that he had an affair with the businesswoman suspected by US security services of being a Chinese intelligence asset. The FBI was also looking into Huang's affair with the businesswoman, President Donald Trump said on Monday. China's foreign ministry has called the spying accusations "groundless" and "a smear."
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