Nvidia Launches Probe Into CEO Jensen Huang's Affair With Suspected Chinese Spy

Nvidia is opening an investigation into reports that CEO Jensen Huang was the "target of a foreign intelligence effort," the company's board of directors said Sunday.The announcement came after Huang acknowledged to the board that he had been intimate with a business executive whom U.S. intelligence determined was gathering information for Beijing, The New York Times reported.Huang apologized in a message to the company, according to the Times.

"I was unfaithful to my wife," he said. "My actions hurt her and our children.

There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry." Full StatementNvidia's board said in a statement it has "no reason to believe" that either national security or Nvidia secrets were compromised, but that its inquiry would examine all available information.