Jensen Huang admits to cheating on his wife as Nvidia investigates whether spies targeted him.
"Unfaithful to my wife," Nvidias CEO wrote to staff on Sunday, in a memo published by Axios. "There is no excuse for what I did. ".
The memo does not call anyone. The New York Times and the Financial Times reported that US intelligence believes the woman, Alice Huang, was recruited by China's top spy agency. She is a Chinese citizen whose company in Singapore purchased Nvidias advanced chips. The two are not related.
Nvidias board formed a committee of independent directors, with outside counsel, to investigate whether Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. He says there is no reason to believe national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised.
Huang has been a key voice in Washington pushing to loosen restrictions on the sale of artificial intelligence chips to China. Nvidia says he will continue to lead the company "without interruption. ".