This is what I keep coming back to. The board is not some random board. They know Jensen is their golden goose, there is no NVIDIA without Jensen. What they saw must have been company-existentially-illegal for them to throw their golden goose under the bus as a survival tactic.

edit: btw the board has a director that’s ex-Cooley, no greenhorn I imagine to congressional investigational scrutiny. It had to be something that made them realize cutting ties with Jensen immediately was the only way to survive.