I will admit, that does sound plausible.

This is the likeliest explanation. The reason might be another but this is clearly him being put aside without having to do it right.

Drats if only the weasely SEE EYE AYE didn’t force him to sleep with a (potential) foreign agent and then also sleep with a bunch of subordinates :(

Such cunning, making such a poor helpless man succumb to such obviously completely 100% fireable offenses.

> Drats if only the weasely SEE EYE AYE didn’t force him to sleep with a (potential) foreign agent

You know that AYE rhymes with EYE, right?

Yes but I couldn’t figure out a better way to write it. Any suggestions? “Eh” doesn’t sound right either.

Ay

AI

EIGH?

Okay winner so far but boy would that be confusing for an English second-language speaker!

AYYY

Ah, you meant CIA.

It seems fairly clear to me that this is the case. His misstep was political in nature, I think , or maybe the Chinese chip wagon train. But the affairs are neither relevant nor noteworthy except as an excuse for the resignation. NVIDIA is a strategic national asset at this point.

You’re disagreeing with the person you’re responding to, btw.

Huh, it seems I’m agreeing with them to me? Am I losing it, at long last? Op says the affairs are parallel construction and I’m saying that I doubt that the affairs are the base motivation?

Yeah, I don't see the disagreement either.

This is a high dimensional space :)

A: legality

B: morality

C: what the political power wants

D: what shareholders wants

E: what the "CIA" wants, which is influenced by A, B and C, and D but its own thing

...

Z: business consequences, the sum of all of the above

An alternate could be, that the entire goal of all of this was because the Chinese government wanted to remove a highly effective CEO, from producing what is now a worldwide grip on top level AI compute power.

That’s a possibility as well.