Jensen Huang resigns as chief executive of Nvidia

Jensen Huang, cofounder of Nvidia since 1993, resigns as chief executive of the company. As of September 2026, Nvidia held about 90 percent of the market for GPUs, the computer chips that operate AI models. The reports give no date for the exit, no cause for it and no name for a successor to Huang.

What is new

WIRED reports that Huang uses a crisis firm for public relations. Since October 2025, the firm is part of all questions from reporters about Huang, personal or work.

The export probe

The New York Times reported in October 2025 that the US Commerce Department looked into Megaspeed, a customer of Nvidia. The question was if Megaspeed helped Chinese companies prevent US export controls. The report says the investigation stopped and went to the US Justice Department after Nvidia general counsel Tim Teter asked about it.

What is not known

The reports do not give the cause of the exit. It does not say that the public relations work or the investigation caused it. Only the time is the same.

Insight: Nvidia can lose its loudest voice on China

Huang spoke against US export controls on chips and made links with Trump. Reports say firms with links to Megaspeed executive Alice Huang made $7 billion or more of chip sales to China possible. Alice Huang has no relation to Jensen Huang. The next chief can change how hard Nvidia pushes for sales to China, a position that Huang led. Find who the board names as the next chief.