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Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by lvl256 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:02AM (#50467221)
For all his faults, I do feel for Jensen. He built this thing from an absolute scratch. He had a lot of luck on the way, from crypto to CUDA. And who can forget his spat with Jobs all those years ago.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by kphorn on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:04AM (#50467277)
This is undoubtedly the most painful professional moment in his career which has been almost entirely Nvidia.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by fridder on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:02AM (#50468480)
and entirely preventable. FAFO
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by ACCount39 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:05AM (#50467294)
Nvidia eventually had a spat with just about any corporation it has ever worked with. Their only partnership that stood the test of time is probably Nintendo.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by piker on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:12AM (#50467456)
TSMC?
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by fernandotakai on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:22AM (#50467700)
from what i remember, morris chang is a close friend to hueng.

i wonder what will happen to nvidia's relationship with TMSC now.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by kccqzy on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:05AM (#50469637)
Morris is almost 100 years old. His role at TSMC was instrumental, but now is more of an ornamental figurehead.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by DaSHacka on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:21AM (#50468858)
> Their only partnership that stood the test of time is probably Nintendo.

But even then, the original Switch 1 homebrew relied on an oversight in NVIDIA's Tegra chip that blew open the whole platform due to the ability to execute unsigned code. The Switch 1 was actually pretty locked down. Nintendo worked hard on securing it properly, only for it to all be for naught due to their SoC vendor making a massive blunder.

I wish I could have seen what was said in the meetings between the two companies when the first Switch exploit was released, considering it was fully on NVIDIA.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by burnte on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:00AM (#50469539)
Yeah but that was only 1st gen and Nintendo can be just as much to blame for exposing it so easily. They fixed the second rev.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by _whiteCaps_ on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:53AM (#50470357)
Megaspeed? :-P
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by bluepeter on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:11AM (#50467427)
He worked at Dennys in Portland for a while, so... He can always lean on that experience if needed.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by throw03172019 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:14AM (#50467517)
I think he will be ok with $50B+
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by DaSHacka on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:22AM (#50468879)
In this economy, that might just cover his rent until next month.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by lolcatzlulz on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:13AM (#50467482)
7th richest person in the world. Has multiple side pieces. The horror, the horror.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by jmathai on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:20AM (#50467666)
Success in some areas of your life does not insulate you from tragedy. The guy still puts his jeans on one leg at a time. Probably very expensive jeans he throws away after one use...but still. The human condition cannot be escaped.

This includes his family and the family of those involved in the affair. Many lives were turned upside down.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by iterance on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:04AM (#50468527)
It isn't the tragic human condition to have affairs. It's a choice he made with his free will.

Plenty of people, even with stupendous wealth, live their lives without infidelity.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by alt227 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:10PM (#50470628)
Humans being fallible and not being able to resist our urges is indeed part of the human condition.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by alt227 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:21AM (#50468847)
The guy has enough money to buy an island in French Polynesia and never leave it for the rest of his life. You are correct he is still human, but he can do pretty well at making a new life for himself where he doesnt have to ever think the word Nvidia again.

In 10 years he will have a new family and new friends and this will be a distant memory for him.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by falsemyrmidon on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:49AM (#50469368)
Yeah, it's just potentially a little light treason, what could go wrong
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by alt227 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:08PM (#50470604)
Yeah, pretty small potatoes compared to the current US president.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by hn_submit on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:27PM (#50470892)
But the President is an untouchable. Huang isn't.

Trump will get away with everything he's done. Rubio, Vance, Kennedy and Hegseth won't.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by hackmack10 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:18PM (#50472706)
Trump will pardon every one of those people on the way out.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by hn_submit on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:29PM (#50472870)
They'll get indicted after he's left office.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by nemomarx on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:38PM (#50473014)
I don't think it's been tested yet, technically?

https://www.criminallawlibraryblog.com/preemptive-pardons-co...

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by deltoidmaximus on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:23PM (#50472774)
> Trump will get away with everything he's done. Rubio, Vance, Kennedy and Hegseth won't.

Well, there's a first time for everything I guess. Trump can just pardon them in return for a bribe after all.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by pphysch on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:14PM (#50470690)
The current chair of the House Foreign Affairs committee proudly wears a foreign military's uniform on Capitol Hill, so probably nothing.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by ChrisGreenHeur on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:15AM (#50467540)
> "And who can forget his spat with Jobs all those years ago."

Apparently I am able to, what was that?

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by jansan on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:22AM (#50467705)
I don't remember either, but I do remember Linus Torwalds not being entirely satisfied with NVIDIA. That is actually something very hard forget.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by gpugreg on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:41AM (#50468076)
Every time I have to reinstall CUDA, I fondly remember this video.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by ndiddy on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:32AM (#50467902)
Apple used nVidia GPUs in most of its computers. Around 2008-2009, nVidia produced a line of faulty GPUs that were used in the Macbook Pro. This led to widespread hardware failures, and was known as "Bumpgate" because the problem was caused by faulty solder bumps inside the GPU chip. nVidia refused to fully reimburse Apple for repairs because it wasn't contractually obligated to do so. In response, Apple switched away entirely from nVidia GPUs.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by gryn on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:00AM (#50468459)
I think it was well into 2013 because both the 2011 and 2013 MBPs I had suffered from it. but I thought that was an apple issue (ie not soldering the dicrete gpu well enough to save money on it)

after the 2 faulty products in a row, I haven't bought an apple product since.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by arjie on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:20AM (#50468825)
No, it was Nvidia because of the way the BGA solder was done. The problem was across manufacturers.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by slantyyz on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:46AM (#50469322)
The infamous early 2011 MBPs had AMD GPUs that basically crapped out the entire logic board. That was what got me to switch back to Windows.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by OisinMoran on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:11AM (#50469717)
You are missing out, the M series laptops are insanely good. Now wondering how the field of ML would have developed if Apple had had Nvidia chips all the way...
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by vrmiguel on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:12AM (#50469756)
And that's kidna funny because now Apple Sillicon has pretty great graphics on their own.

Maybe that's the lesson he learned and why he _supposedly_ was making sure his GPUs were still getting to China. Because he knows that the alternative would lead to good Nvidia Chinese competitor later on

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by KingMob on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:18AM (#50467602)
> He built this thing from an absolute scratch.

Pretty sure all those nVidia employees over the years had a bigger hand in building it.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by stonedivot on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:23AM (#50467715)
Right. I'm sure if you got all of those employees in a room together with no vision and no Jensen, Nvidia as we know it today just pops out, right?
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by verdverm on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:38AM (#50468020)
There are dozens, if not hundreds, of AI chip startups right now. So yes is a very reasonable stance to your question
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by cyh555 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:09AM (#50468615)
It's CUDA, indeed, only Jensen can do it
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by verdverm on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:20AM (#50468827)
Apparently Ai does it better now, and there is more than CUDA now too

The idea that only one person matters is a plague on society

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by thecosas on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:41AM (#50468071)
“The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.” -Elbert Hubbard

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/21/graveyards-full/

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by yubblegum on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:04AM (#50468530)
Aha. So now we know why the world is in such a sorry state.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by marcusverus on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:18AM (#50468790)
This is why socialism/communism won the Cold War. They got rid of entrepreneurship, yet new and innovative companies just spontaneously self-assembled for the greater good!
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by jvwww on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:31PM (#50470950)
I mean they obviously didn't because they never would have been working together without the founders.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by coldpie on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:18AM (#50467604)
He has dozens of billions of dollars. He does not need your feelings, he needs a wealth tax.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by lrae on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:23AM (#50467713)
Wrong tree?

> Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Backs California Billionaire Tax Despite Potential $8B Bill

> "I don't mind paying taxes. The more you make, the more taxes you pay. I'm okay with that," Huang said

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by verdverm on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:37AM (#50468002)
Things Jensen has said are now all suspect. Does he really believe this or is it just his day time positioning, in contrast to his nighttime positioning that cost him his job
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by lavendermon on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:40AM (#50468055)
Jensen has been one of the few outspoken billionaires for promoting higher taxes on himself. In fact, only he and Buffett come to mind as the members of that category.

Then again, below is a 2024 article from the NY Times claiming Jensen was taking advantage of loopholes to save $8 billion on taxes. I'm not sure whether playing by the existing rules is a sign that he wants lower taxes at the expense of everyone else, who wouldn't take advantage of loopholes while they exist? Any good accountant would recommend the same. The article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/business/nvidia-jensen-hu...

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by sowbug on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:53PM (#50471308)
It's not necessarily inconsistent. You can support improvements to the tax code while also excelling under its current version.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by shimman on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:51PM (#50472247)
Saying you support then actually making it possible, something that every billionaire can easily do with how super PACs work is an actual choice.

Talking is the cheapest thing you can do and his actions say more. Rather than helping make a free and safer society for Americans, he chose to ignore export bans and work with an adversarial government.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by marcusverus on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:13AM (#50468697)
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Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by coldpie on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:20AM (#50468822)
Tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people built that company, kiddo.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by marcusverus on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:38AM (#50470113)
They did the jobs they were given and were well compensated for it. This fact has no bearing on whatsoever on the claim that Jensen is "hoarding" his shares in the company that he created.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by coldpie on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:47AM (#50470265)
He could give away >95% of his wealth and it would make no difference at all to his life. He would still have the exact same life he has now. That wealth could be put to useful purposes, but isn't, because he is sitting on it. That is hoarding.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by jaharios on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:03PM (#50470511)
You could also fall in a well and would probably make no difference to the world.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by marcusverus on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:04PM (#50472464)
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Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by coldpie on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:29PM (#50472868)
> You could drive a 20 year old car, live in a small apartment, wear Walmart clothes, and rely on Social Security for retirement while donating everything else to charity, and the difference on your life would be negligible.

No, this is false.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by coldpie on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:36PM (#50472973)
> You could drive a 20 year old car, live in a small apartment, wear Walmart clothes, and rely on Social Security for retirement while donating everything else to charity, and the difference on your life would be negligible.

No, this is obviously false.

I don't think you understand how much money a billion dollars is. A billion dollars in a HYSA giving 3.5% yields 35 million dollars a year, with zero risk. It takes a married couple ballpark 5 million dollars to basically never need to work again. So a billion dollars earning guaranteed interest gives you enough money to never need to work again, seven times over, every single year. After just one year, you already have more money just in interest than you could ever reasonably spend, and you haven't even tapped in to your principle. A billion dollars is an absolutely insane amount of wealth.

Jensen Huang has eighty times that much money. There is no difference between eighty billion dollars and one billion dollars. It's the same amount of money, it's effectively infinite. He can give away 79 of those 80 billions and he would not notice. He wouldn't have to drive a Walmart car or live in a small apartment, he can still have every lifestyle choice he could possibly want after giving away 95% of his money. The difference would not even be negligible to him, there would literally be no difference.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by vouwfietsman on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:08PM (#50472532)
> well compensated for it

If they were, how could he hoard so much of their output?

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by KetoManx64 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:43AM (#50469258)
He's not hoarding crap. Man's probably got maybe a couple hundred thousand dollars in free cash, the rest is all loans, stocks, investments and properties.

The only people that should be wealth taxed is leeches like you that see how utterly corrupt the state is with how it handles tax dollars and wants to give it more money.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by coldpie on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:48AM (#50469353)
Nah. He could sell most of that stock and it could be put to useful purposes while making no difference whatsoever to his life. It could be used to build housing, or pay teachers more, or build libraries, or found new companies, or pay off medical debt, there's thousands of things it could be used for. Instead he's just sitting on it. This is hoarding.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by layer8 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:05AM (#50469630)
That’s a strange argument. His wife owns half of these dollars, so no one should feel for her as well?

(I personally don’t care about Jensen. I just don’t think that “people don’t deserve sympathy because they are billionaires” makes any sense.)

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by coldpie on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:20AM (#50469865)
Being a billionaire is a choice to continue to hoard resources that could be put to useful purposes instead. Yeah, I don't have much sympathy for people who choose to squander our society's resources like that.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by ithkuil on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:15PM (#50470691)
Does a billionaire who became billionair by marrying a person who became a billionaire also bears the responsibility of hoarding because they choose to marry that person and not divorce early?
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by zzrrt on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:39PM (#50473908)
What would be the adverse consequences of wealth-taxing someone who didn't actively choose to be wealthy? They would have a mere 500 million left, which they didn't want anyway?
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by driverdan on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:42AM (#50468100)
> I do feel for Jensen

Why? He caused this. He chose to have affairs with a spy and a subordinate. Now he has to deal with the consequences.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by freecodeio on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:22AM (#50468878)
> Why?

cause this place is full of incels

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by godockly on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:34AM (#50469109)
It will be the end of this species
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by kridsdale1 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:57AM (#50469495)
It’s possible to have empathy for sinners. We’re all human.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by bdelmas on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:00AM (#50469550)
I agree. I think the biggest issue is to not have empathy for sinners and you think you are a saint…
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by asadotzler on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:20AM (#50469857)
spending your empathy on billionaires rather than people being screwed over by billionaires is a choice.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by quentindanjou on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:37AM (#50470099)
It's like if, after a shooting, you were worried about the shooter having to go to jail instead of wondering about the people shot.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by vouwfietsman on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:05PM (#50472486)
Indeed, except, not at all like that
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by bar8uyr on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:33PM (#50473817)
I'm not religious. I do agree though.

But you shouldn't have empathy because you like him or anything.

You should have empathy when he proves he's changed. You can make mistakes, we all do. You don't deserve empathy.

He sells GPUs, he's not a rockstar.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by onidj on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:57AM (#50469506)
It remains possible to feel sympathy for people who have done wrong. He's one of the richest men on the planet, he's acted with hubris and ignominy, he's betrayed his loved ones, and he's also probably feeling pretty terrible right now.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by doublerabbit on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:11AM (#50469738)
> It remains possible to feel sympathy for people who have done wrong. He's one of the richest men on the planet, he's acted with hubris and ignominy, he's betrayed his loved ones, and he's also probably feeling pretty terrible right now.

Good. Let him feel pretty terrible. He's rich, he did nothing but be a parasite in the corporate playground.

He had an affair and as having my father do the same on my mother; you get no sympathy on cheating. When would he give it to you, because I can tell you he would never give it to you.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by onidj on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:29PM (#50471893)
Sympathy isn't absolution. I hope he's okay in the same way I hope everyone is okay.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by doublerabbit on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:44PM (#50474000)
I repaired my mistakes. I return.

Nah, he gets to suffer.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by LetsGetTechnicl on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:36AM (#50470092)
Why would I have sympathy for him? Sounds like he got what he deserved
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by alt227 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:20PM (#50471724)
Because its the human thing to do.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by LetsGetTechnicl on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:38PM (#50473010)
The human thing to also do is not pushing AI everywhere for the benefit of themselves and their stakeholders, to the detriment of literally the rest of humanity
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by tylerjharden on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:04PM (#50472481)
Have you never been in a situation where you made mistakes, felt guilty, and appreciated the empathy and sympathy from fellow humans in light of all the shame and vitriol you received counter-wise?
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by LetsGetTechnicl on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:37PM (#50472995)
Yeah but I'm not also a multi-billionaire who ran a company that is going to crash our economy
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by spike021 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:43AM (#50470205)
probably feeling pretty terrible that he finally got caught?

based on the reporting about the second affair, it's possible his security has had to shut down similar witnesses in the past.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by sparklingmango on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:24AM (#50469919)
Yeah. I don't feel bad for a billionaire who operates in an extremely unethical fashion.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by subarctic on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:55AM (#50470390)
You mean he knew she was a spy?
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by claaams on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:33PM (#50470988)
Let's not forget him most likely knowingly breaking US export laws. Some might even call that treason.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by lvl256 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:22PM (#50471768)
This is his identity. Sure, he’s made some poor choices. Imagine Jobs resigning at the height of iPhone phenomenon or Gates at the very peak of Windows. Not sure if Jensen can bounce back from this psychologically. He’ll be broken for awhile.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by laurels-marts on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:29PM (#50471892)
I think a lot of people might also disagree with the consequences. Something along the lines of - if it’s all consensual then why does it matter. Disclosing trade secrets (wittingly or otherwise) or skirting export ban is a separate matter that does have real legal consequences if proven true.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by rsoto2 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:37PM (#50473876)
"with a spy" where is the proof that she is a spy? It seems to be perfectly ok for CEOs to profess blind allegiance to a terrorist state, like Larry Ellison does, seems like a double standard.
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by nozzlegear on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:26AM (#50468954)
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Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by seiru on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:34AM (#50469103)
I feel for his wife, personally
Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by BeFlatXIII on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:03PM (#50470507)
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Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by troyvit on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:20PM (#50472736)
> For all his faults, I do feel for Jensen.

Me too. If he needs somebody to take his place he can reach me at my HN profile page. I'll take the bullet and try to struggle through with just billions of dollars.

Re:NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition by bar8uyr on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:31PM (#50473772)
Not to hate but he didn't build any GPU tech really.. He just came up with the name "GPU" (like CPU but with a G").