Jensen Huang Misled Top Nvidia Officers About Affair With Chinese Spy: Report

Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang misled several of the company's leaders, including general counsel Tim Teter and chief marketing officer Alison Wagonfeld, about the nature of his relationship with Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang, with whom he had an affair, according to two people familiar with the matter and internal correspondence reviewed by Reuters.Reuters reviewed several exchanges from October on condition of not quoting verbatim from the messages.

The news agency is the first to report on this correspondence.On Thursday, Huang resigned as Nvidia CEO, a spectacular fall from the chip industry's heights where he was a pioneer of technology central to the recent boom in artificial intelligence.He apologized in a statement on Sunday for being unfaithful to his wife and for disappointing the company.

His statement did not specifically name Alice Huang, a former top executive of Nvidia customer Megaspeed International, whom the US was investigating for potentially spying for China.