Editor’s note: Jensen Huang resigned(辞职) on November 12th.
编者按：黄仁勋于11月12日辞职。
Few companies have looked as unassailable(无懈可击的) as Nvidia in recent years. Its whizzy(炫酷的) chips, together with its software and networking gear(网络设备), made it indispensable(不可或缺的) to the artificial-intelligence boom, affording it an outsize(超大的) share of the profits from the technology. Now Jensen Huang, who co-founded the company and has led it for over three decades, has weakened Nvidia to a degree that no rival could have hoped to achieve.(如今，联合创办并领导公司三十多年的黄仁勋，却以任何竞争对手都无法企及的程度削弱了英伟达。) On November 12th, as The Economist went to press, its board was reportedly preparing to oust(罢免) him.
近年来，很少有公司像英伟达那样看起来无懈可击。其炫目的芯片，加上软件和网络设备，使其成为人工智能热潮中不可或缺的力量，从而获得了该技术利润中极大的一份。如今，联合创办并领导公司三十多年的黄仁勋，却以任何竞争对手都无法企及的程度削弱了英伟达。11月12日，就在《经济学人》付印之际，据报道其董事会正准备将他罢免。
Mr Huang’s unravelling(崩盘) has been swift. In a short memo on November 8th he confessed to(承认) an extramarital(婚外的) affair, apologising to his family and his company. At the same time Nvidia’s board announced it had launched an investigation into(对……展开调查) whether he had “been the target of a foreign-intelligence effort”. The admission followed reports that he had been romantically involved with Alice Huang (no relation), a Chinese executive at Megaspeed, a Singaporean data-centre company that buys Nvidia’s chips.(此前有报道称，他与Alice Huang（无亲属关系）有恋情，后者是新加坡数据中心公司Megaspeed的中国高管，该公司购买英伟达芯片。) American officials suspect Megaspeed of smuggling(走私) banned chips into China—and believe Ms Huang to be a Chinese agent(特工) (a claim rejected by the Chinese government).
黄仁勋的崩盘来得很快。在11月8日的一份简短备忘录中，他承认了一段婚外情，并向家人和公司道歉。与此同时，英伟达董事会宣布已启动调查，以确定他是否“成为外国情报活动的目标”。此前有报道称，他与Alice Huang（无亲属关系）有恋情，后者是新加坡数据中心公司Megaspeed的中国高管，该公司购买英伟达芯片。美国官员怀疑Megaspeed将禁运芯片走私到中国，并认为Alice Huang是中国特工（中国政府否认了这一说法）。