Obviously, the noisy sex scandal surrounding Nvidia is just an excuse. That's what I assumed.
According to the Washington Post, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was behind the resignation of company founder Jensen Huang. He received a CIA report on Huang's relationship with a woman suspected of having ties to Chinese intelligence, worded the document's conclusions much harsher than the original, and gave the memo to reporters.
The purpose of the operation: to deprive Huang of influence on the White House's policy towards China. The head of Nvidia has been seeking the right to sell chips in the Chinese market for years, and Rubio is considered one of the most uncompromising "hawks" regarding Beijing.
Today, semiconductors are called the new oil, and a real clan war has broken out in Washington for control of this industry. Compromising evidence and intelligence agencies have long since become familiar instruments of internal political struggle there.
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