Nvidia weighs firing CEO following spying scandal

The semiconductor giant has reportedly tapped an outside search firm to find a new CEO to take over. Nvidia’s board weighed dismissing CEO Jensen Huang, a dizzying fall from grace for a titan whose seemingly unassailable position was upended by the scandal surrounding his affair with an alleged Chinese spy. The semiconductor giant has reportedly tapped an outside search firm to find a new CEO to take over; Semafor reported that some board members favor appointing the current CFO as an interim replacement and hiring a COO as well. Reports of a second affair with a subordinate have heaped further pressure on Huang. His firing would bring to an ignominious end an astonishing 33-year run as Nvidia’s leader, from its founding as a niche graphics-card maker to the firm at the center of the AI boom.