On November 12, Nvidia CEO and founder Jensen Huang resigned from the tech giant effective immediately following a public scandal. Nvidia has already named Huang's successors and stated that its ongoing operations and commitments will not be affected by the change in leadership.

Huang co-founded Nvidia in April 1993 with the goal of creating components aimed at 3D graphics processing, with PC gaming being a core audience it hoped to corner. Since then, Nvidia has gone on to create graphics cards, including the RTX lineup, and technologies such as DLSS upscaling to improve performance without sacrificing too much graphical quality. With the rise of AI across the global economy, Nvidia has also become a prominent investor in companies such as OpenAI.

A source claims that users may not have much time to purchase a new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card from retailers.

Although Huang managed to lead Nvidia to have complete control of the PC gaming market , his time with the company he founded is now up. Nvidia stated that Huang resigned after 33 years of service. The company's current Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Collete Kress, has been named Nvidia's interim CEO alongside her current duties as EVP and CFO until a permanent successor to Huang's position can be formally chosen. Along with Kress' new post, Nvidia also named its first Chair of the Board, as Synopsys CEO and Executive Chairman Harvey C. Jones was named to the post. The decision came after Huang admitted to having an extramarital affair, for which he formally apologized in a letter to all Nvidia staff members on November 8.

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