We wrote that the sex scandal in Nvidia's history is just an excuse. And so it happened.
According to the "Washington Post", the resignation of the company's founder Jensen Huang was prepared by the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. He took a CIA report on Huang's affair with a suspected Chinese intelligence officer, wrote the findings more harshly, and leaked the memo to the press.
The goal is to remove Huang from the White House's China policy. The head of Nvidia has pushed for years to sell chips to the Chinese market, Rubio is a leading hawk against Beijing.
French fries are the new oil, and there is a veritable tribal war going on in Washington for control of them.
Compromise on the evidence and intelligence services there have long become a common tool in domestic politics.