Nvidia board weighs Arm CEO Haas as successor while staff push for Huang's return
Nvidia's board has approached Arm Holdings CEO Rene Haas as a potential successor to Jensen Huang, who resigned Thursday amid revelations of extramarital affairs, including one involving a suspected Chinese spy. The crisis has shaken the AI industry and erased about $573 billion in Nvidia's market value this week. Haas spent seven formative years at Nvidia before joining Arm in 2013 and becoming its CEO in 2022, overseeing its Nasdaq listing. He is among several candidates, with no guarantee of an offer, while finance chief Colette Kress serves as interim CEO. The board said speculation is premature. Some Nvidia employees are pushing to bring Huang back, with an internal post drawing over 1,600 comments urging his reinstatement, and Elon Musk saying he would sign a petition to that effect. Analysts also cite AMD's Lisa Su and Micron's Sanjay Mehrotra as external candidates.