Also, both the company she was "CEO" of and her path to that role are so shady that it's unbelievable that it even worked. Though it seems it did to a point.
Anyways, I think he knew; or at least suspected it and kept going.
Nvidia was forcing US businesses to buy hardware they did not need which increased nvidia production, but drove up all hardware prices. The increased production enabled smuggling more gpus to china. It was a clear crime before jensen blamed his handler, and it's still a clear crime after jensen blamed his handler. Jensen forced businesses and consumers to pay billions more for hardware and it appears he did it to enable smuggling more gpus to china.
Jensen is a criminal. Likely, most of the CEOs that signed those deals to buy hardware they did not need are also criminals. Every business and consumer that paid more for hardware is a victim of nvidia, jensen, and the CEOs that signed crooked contracts with him.
The people making these deals that aided chinese smuggling and ripped off the entire US economy are the people making billions of dollars off these deals. They are all criminals. Put them in jail. You will be able to afford ram and a graphics card again.
How is that possible under capitalism?
It depends on him, i can see things breaking at NVDA enough to ask him to come back
Even employee action here is pretty powerful
If he wants to come back is a different thing, he can do anything he wants
He can start a competitor to NVDA and poach enough employees to build a product and is connected and rich enough to get manufacturing and supply chains going...
Or he might just want to enjoy his life
they already know nvidia is circumventing ITAR and were fine about it for about a year. you are not seeing the real question, which is: why now? what changed?
Instead, Export Administration Regulations (EAR) applies to exports of technology (software and hardware). Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_Administration_Regulati...
About MegaSpeed: They were NVidia largest customer in Southeast Asia (which incluedes Singapore), buying about 140,000 GPUs in the last 2-3 years. Then, then built data centers in Southeast Asia and rented the GPUs to Mainland Chinese companies. To be clear: From 2023-2025 (their peak), this business model was not prohibited by United States GPU export controls. However, that will probably change soon.
And I guess one could believe that MegaSpeed really did only that, renting GPUs from afar. In which case perhaps this is more a political problem than a legal one? I'd wager it's still a huge political issue, but I guess we'll see.
[0] Openai Startup Fund "This was also news to the board. What was this person talking about? OpenAI did launch a startup fund in 2021, which it said at the time would be “managed” by OpenAI, with investment from Microsoft and others. The fund had invested in the AI-driven legal startup Harvey and a handful of other companies. But what was this about returns not going to OpenAI shareholders? The board began to ask Altman about it, and over the course of months of going back and forth, eventually learned that Altman owned the fund personally, and had been raising money from LPs to fund it." https://www.openaifiles.org/ceo-integrity
But Jensen Huang has admitted to a longstanding affair with the CEO of a company that appears to exist only to evade ITAR restrictions. It's just impossible to believe that Jensen did not know what MegaSpeed was doing. While by all appearances he facilitated and benefited from it personally.
And one can also believe that ITAR restrictions on GPU sales are dumb, but evading them still counts as selling sensitive weapons to the enemy, both legally and politically.