Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to an extramarital affair in a statement published on Nvidia's newsroom. A strange move for the $4.5 trillion company without the added context: the person he's suspected of having an affair with has also been deemed a Chinese intelligence asset by US officials, and was investigated for smuggling none other than Nvidia's own chips.
The story goes far deeper than Huang's affair; revolving around national security, export controls, spying, chip smuggling, and US/China relations. It's in large part about AI, and who controls the hardware that makes it possible. So, if you're wondering why Huang might be the target of Chinese intelligence to begin with, or why he's announcing his affair in the most public way possible, here's how we got to this point.
Why does it matter where Nvidia sells its GPUs?
Nvidia is at the centre of the debate about whether the United States should sell its most technologically advanced chips to China. The US had already ensured China couldn't make the most cutting-edge chips through a b...
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