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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by jaredklewis on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:58PM (#50478539)
The board probably knows more than us random commenters on the internet, but it seems to me his affair with Alice Huang pretty clearly clouded his judgement. NYT, Bloomberg, and Culper Research all reported that MegaSpeed was illegally diverting chips to China.

If the press knew about it, I'm sure Jensen did. More than enough reason to fire him.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by Marazan on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:22AM (#50479590)
The board backed him after the Alice Huang news. They emergency "voluntarily resigned" him after news of the second affair broke.

It is pretty clear he lied to the board after the first news broke and that is why he was sacked.

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by Numerlor on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:35AM (#50479681)
The Alice Huang relationship has been known about for a longer time, seemingly even by his family.

It more feels like someone wanted him gone. The second affair had to be leaked because after the first one it still appeared he still had a good chance of remaining CEO

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by well_ackshually on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:27AM (#50483189)
>MegaSpeed was illegally diverting chips to China.

Last time I looked, the US's laws weren't applied by default to the whole world, and states remain sovereign. Is there a piece of international law that you know of and the rest of the world does not ?

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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by macintux on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:17AM (#50483836)
Ok, more accurately, Huang was attempting to prevent the U.S. government from blocking sales to MegaSpeed (and probably violating laws by ignoring the red flags).
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Re:Nvidia employees petition to bring back Jensen Huang by jaredklewis on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:54PM (#50490444)
Last time you looked the US didn't have export controls that require Nvidia to KYC and not sell its most advanced processors to China? Well, look harder I guess? Checkout the ECRA and the associated executive orders.
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