The first can be objectively and quickly ruled as violating company policy. The second has to go through a process -- did Jensen knowingly violate national security policy, and if so how significant was it?
Externally no, but internally to the company they probably can be.
I think, among other things, Nvidia’s board didn’t want to find out if a Congressional committee agreed about that.
Mr. Huang, you’ve admitted that you violated Nvidia’s policy on relations with subordinates. Why should we believe you were faithful to Nvidia’s policy of compliance with national security export controls?
> ban for national security reasons
These don't sound like they are on the same order of magnitude in terms of severity?