LAHORE MIRROR (AFP) — Elon Musk said on Saturday that chipmaker Nvidia would lose “critical” deals without its now-ousted chief executive officer (CEO) Jensen Huang.
Huang stepped down on Thursday after revelations of extramarital affairs, including one involving a suspected Chinese spy, plunging the chipmaker into crisis and sending shockwaves across an AI industry he helped bankroll.
In a post on X, Musk said that while Huang drove the supply chain “brilliantly” at Nvidia, many such deals were “a handshake with Jensen, not a written contract”.
“Without Jensen, at least some of those critical deals will be lost.”
The SpaceX boss went on to praise the former Nvidia CEO: “If Jensen gave me his word about compute delivery or I asked for components to be accelerated, he always came through.
“Sure, we’d put together a purchase order at some point later, but I never for a second thought it wouldn’t happen.”
The billionaire has separately said on X that a petition was underway to reinstate Huang and that he would sign it. It was not immediately clear whether Musk was referring to the internal effort reported by Wired.
Nvidia declined to comment on the Wired report as well as Musk’s post. Reuters could not independently verify the reports.
