
Editor’s note: Jensen Huang resigned(辞职) on November 12th.
编者按:黄仁勋已于11月12日辞职。
Jensen Huang is a brilliant man—and a fool. The boss of Nvidia, the world’s leading chip designer and until recently its most valuable company, had an extramarital affair.(英伟达的老板——这家全球领先的芯片设计公司直到最近还是全球市值最高的公司——搞了一段婚外情。) His lover was an executive at Megaspeed, a little-known cloud-computing firm that has bought billions of dollars’ worth of Nvidia hardware. American officials think she is a Chinese agent, and that her Singapore-based company is a front(幌子,掩护) for smuggling the politically sensitive chips into China(向中国走私政治敏感芯片).
黄仁勋是个聪明人——也是个傻瓜。作为英伟达的老板——这家全球领先的芯片设计公司直到最近还是全球市值最高的公司——他搞了一段婚外情。他的情妇是Megaspeed的高管,这家名不见经传的云计算公司购买了价值数十亿美元的英伟达硬件。美国官员认为她是中国特工,并认为她这家总部位于新加坡的公司是向中国走私这些政治敏感芯片的幌子。
As we went to press(付印), Nvidia’s board was meeting amid reports that it was planning to oust(罢免,驱逐) Mr Huang. If it had yet to find the courage to sack him, fresh allegations of another affair—this time with a direct report—will surely help. His position is untenable(站不住脚的), and he must go. The same is true for American officials implicated(被牵连的) in the Megaspeed scandal.
就在本文付印之际,英伟达董事会正在开会,有报道称其计划罢免黄仁勋。如果董事会尚未鼓起勇气解雇他,那么有关他又一段婚外情的新指控——这次是与直接下属——定会助其一臂之力。他的职位已不可维持,必须走人。卷入Megaspeed丑闻的美国官员也是如此。