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ceejayoz | on: Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say
Yes, it's the illegal stuff (bribes and sanction busting), not the legal stuff (consensual, of-age sex), that's getting him booted. I am very prepared to admit that.

(Plus presumably lying to the board about all this as it started to break.)

iamflimflam1 | parent | next
Having secret sexual relationships with your subordinates is a big problem. Anyone claiming the opposite needs to have a careful think.
carlosjobim | root | parent | next
Anybody thinking that an adult human is "subordinate" to another human outside of a strict military setting is beyond being helped by thinking. Work is just work, it's not who we are.
ceejayoz | root | parent
It is a big problem, yes. But it's not typically a criminal one, which distinguishes itself from the weird Anthropic sex cult stuff.
ls612 | parent
From what I had read the sanctions-busting type stuff was really "lobbying the administration to not do anything about it from a regulatory perspective" which is different from just ignoring the law like the talking points claim.

I'm fine with the idea of not selling chips to China, but this is being used as the catalyst to embed government-controlled kill switches in all advanced chips under the guise preventing chip smuggling to China. Read up on the Chip Security Act sometime. Most on HN would find such a policy on its face abhorent, but those like you will cheer it on now because of the partisan affiliation of specific actors in this story.

ceejayoz | root | parent
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/nvidias-disappearing-s...

> As recently as the summer of last year, Singapore was officially one of Nvidia’s biggest markets, generating 22% of the chip maker’s revenue. Then, practically overnight, it disappeared from the company’s financial disclosures.

> The timeline indicates that Nvidia altered its methodology for reporting the geographic breakdown of its revenue shortly after placing Megaspeed International on an internal block list. It isn’t clear if the two are related, but the shift had the effect of removing visibility into Nvidia’s sales tied to Singapore. That is the home to Megaspeed, the cloud-computing company embroiled in a sex-and-espionage scandal that has engulfed Nvidia and its chief executive.

Sure, sure. Totally on the up-and-up.

ls612 | root | parent
I'm not sure what the point here is? Parts of the government wanted to blacklist Megaspeed, Nvidia apparently first intervened with Lutnick to block this, and then decided to block them internally instead for some reason. The change in revenue disclosure was almost certainly to avoid further complaints about export controls but they never actually violated a control that actually went into place? Worst case for them legally is that they broke their own internal block on selling chips to Megaspeed.
ceejayoz | root | parent
Do you think NVIDIA really thought 20%+ of their market share going to Singapore wasn't something odd going on? Where are you going to put that many datacenters there?

They made out like bandits looking the other way.

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