Dubai: Elon Musk said it would be an honour to hire Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang after an X user urged him to do so. “That would be an honor,” Musk replied on Wednesday, without naming a role or saying whether he had spoken to Huang.
The exchange came as Nvidia’s directors were due to meet to consider whether to remove Huang, Reuters reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Bloomberg separately reported that the board had enlisted an outside firm to identify potential successors and was weighing an interim appointment while it looked for a permanent chief. Nvidia has yet to announce a leadership change or name a successor.
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Huang, who co-founded Nvidia in 1993, acknowledged in a November 8 email to staff that he had been unfaithful to his wife. Nvidia’s board said it had opened an independent investigation into reports that he was the target of a foreign intelligence effort and said it had no reason to believe US national security or company secrets had been compromised. The New York Times subsequently reported an alleged second affair involving an Nvidia executive who reported to Huang.
If Huang leaves, the board could turn to a familiar executive to run Nvidia while…
