Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with a second company employee beyond the two already disclosed, according to two people familiar with the matter cited by Reuters. The woman has not been named, and attempts to reach her were unsuccessful.
The disclosure adds a third relationship to a scandal that led to Huang’s resignation from Nvidia on Thursday. The two previously known relationships involved Alice Huang, an executive at a Singapore-based company called Megaspeed who US intelligence suspects of being tied to Chinese intelligence, and Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of health care.
Megaspeed has been described as a front company designed to circumvent US restrictions on China’s access to Nvidia chips. The possibility that a foreign intelligence contact had personal access to Nvidia’s former chief executive has prompted calls in Congress for Huang to testify.
The fallout has hit Nvidia’s market value directly. Since the affair involving Alice Huang became public on October 29, the company’s stock has lost roughly 30% of its value, a drop equivalent to about $1 trillion.
Reuters has not disclosed further details about the third relationship, and no additional allegations of national security concerns have been reported in connection with it. The scope of the matter, including whether other relationships will come to light, remains unclear.
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