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[–] 9 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I really hope he isn't replaced by someone worse. At least Huang was good to his employees.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I guarantee you he will be replaced by someone worse and my crackpot theory is this investigation was in cooperation with the Trump regime’s backdoor/conspiratorial rapist ways

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    What? How come? He was really advancing those China relations!

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  • [–] 1 point 15 hours ago

    If this doesn't mean graphics cards will get cheaper or more expensive I can't say I care

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    [–] 17 points 18 hours ago* (7 children)

    What's the angle here? He made a ton of money for his shareholders. Including by lobbying for allowing sales to China as well as closing his eyes while different firms were smuggling GPUs. Why would the board get rid of him? This whole thing looks really unusual.

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  • [–] [S] 29 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

    I think the smuggling and the general desire to continue exporting to China is the key here, and that Alice Huang being a spy is bullshit. I think she’s a chip smuggler, something that the Chinese state has been trying to curtail, because it wants to develop its own domestic chip industry that’s no longer depended on Western chip manufacturers. That’s why millions of NVIDIA chips are currently quarantined at Hong Kong ports.

    I think this is a fight between two factions of big capital, one that wants to constrain China and another that wants to continue profiting from China.

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  • [–] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    I think this is a fight between two factions of big capital, one that wants to constrain China and another that wants to continue profiting from China.

    Do you think that fight is being expressed in this NVIDIA-internal hullabaloo about investigating and potentially Huang? I feel like the capital that wants to constrain China wouldn't be invested in NVIDIA and would do it through the state apparatus.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 17 hours ago*

    It is doing it through state apparatus, for example through “anonymous” CIA sources baselessly accusing Alice of espionage and exposing their affair. And they’re doing it behind Trump’s back, because Trump & Jensen have had a chummy relationship.

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  • [–] 9 points 18 hours ago*

    For sleeping with an executive that reports directly to him. Comments I’d take with a grain of salt implied she might have attained her position by sleeping with Jensen, and that very much violates company policy.

    You aren’t wrong though. It’d be stupid to fire him over the smuggling thing, as long as the DOJ isn’t pressing charges either.

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  • [–] 5 points 17 hours ago

    lobbying for allowing sales to China as well as closing his eyes while different firms were smuggling GPUs

    most of the epstein class wants to choke off china like they're doing to cuba atm and huang is very inconvenient to the rn because of this -- it's not an accident that he suddenly can't be in the room w trump and jinping because he's been summoned to testify.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

    That is a hostile takeover if I ever see one.

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  • [–] 12 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    Good, fuck Jensen Huang. I hope his wife files for divorce next

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  • [–] 6 points 11 hours ago

    I’m just here for the drama, curious how it turns out in the end.

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  • [–] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    Maybe he should have kept his dick in his pants?

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  • [–] 3 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

    CEOs are figureheads and faces that don’t matter that much ultimately. But the damage done by the face of the company compromising it to this degree is immeasurable.

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  • [–] 23 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 child)

    Jensen literally founded the company, and helped design the original GPU. He made some incredibly critical long-term decisions, like pushing CUDA and some architectural features, even when they wouldn’t pay out for years.

    Many report directly to him.

    …By all accounts, he is rather critical for Nvidia. I don’t mean to glaze him, but TBH some generic CEO would run Nvidia to the ground in no time.

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  • [–] 8 points 18 hours ago

    Um, no?

    CEOs get high-level direction from the board of directors. “We want to see increased sales in India.” Could be an example.

    It is up to the CEO to act on that, passing directions down through the C-Suite towards managers and regular employees.

    Their compensation is usually very high, you think a figurehead is getting $50m a year to do nothing and have sex with employees?

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  • [–] -5 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    Can't come soon enough this traitor must go.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 16 hours ago*

    In what sense is he a traitor? I think you’re approaching the situation from the wrong angle. What he is is a billionaire butting heads with other billionaires, and none of them are patriots.

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    [–] 22 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

    Wow, potentially the first affair (set of affairs?) that will lead to a recession. How exciting.

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  • [–] 17 points 23 hours ago (8 children)

    I’ll volunteer to lead it. And I won’t even bang a spy.

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  • [–] -1 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

    Despite his indiscretions, he is an amazing leader. I doubt they'll find one better. I'm sad for the employees, he always made sure they were taken care of, insisted that NVIDIA never do layoffs. I'm worried that whomever they find to replace him will be your typical psychopath CEOs, putting employees last.

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    Not a popular opinion on Lemmy, but I'm not about to start lying

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  • [–] 13 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

    It’s hard to appreciate a wealthy corpo egregiously pumping up the bubble and ruining the consumer market for pc enthusiasts.

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  • [–] 8 points 21 hours ago

    Absolutely agree there. My tower has a 1070, wanted to build a new one and now I'm shit out of luck and he's largely to blame. Can't say it's not satisfying to see one of them sweat for once.

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  • [–] 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    X

    E: Goddamn

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  • [–] 6 points 14 hours ago

    Regular people just get fired. Billionaires get ousted.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago

    Well-Huang… well Huang… I mean: well, Huang seems to have a way with the ladies.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago (1 child)

    No surprise Xi opted for the honey pot play.

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago (1 child)

    What about his jackets, so they get to stay?

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