Is Jensen Huang too powerful to be punished by Nvidia?

• Nvidia’s board has opened an investigation into Jensen Huang after he admitted an affair with a woman US agencies say is a Chinese spy. He apologised and said he will cooperate.
• Huang’s power at Nvidia is huge. He leads the company with no clear successor, and his family holds key roles, which has raised concern inside and outside the firm.
• His leadership helped Nvidia dominate AI chips and reach a US$5 trillion valuation. He also shaped Trump’s AI policy and helped push back chip and safety rules.

SAN FRANCISCO – Over the past four years, Jensen Huang has become the maestro of the artificial intelligence boom and its most essential billionaire executive.

Nvidia, the company he co-founded in 1993, controls an estimated 90% of the market for the computer chips used in the big AI projects that are driving the US economy. That dominance has made Huang one of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as an ally of President Donald Trump.