Chipmaker's probe comes as the CEO admits to having an affair with the suspected spy.

Nvidia on Sunday said it’s opening an investigation into whether Jensen Huang, the company’s chief executive officer and founder, was targeted by a foreign intelligence effort after Huang admitted having an affair with a business executive who was reportedly a Chinese spy.

The announcement of any investigation follows a series of reports that Huang had developed a “close relationship” with Alice Huang, no relation to Jensen Huang, who is a Chinese citizen and an executive at Megaspeed. Megaspeed is a Singapore-based data center company that buys chips from Nvidia to run data centers that sell computing power to Chinese AI labs.

The New York Times reported in late October that US intelligence agencies had Alice Huang under electronic surveillance for allegedly facilitating the sale of advanced Nvidia chips to China in violation of US law. During that surveillance, officials discovered she was also allegedly funneling information to the Chinese government in Beijing.

The announcement comes as Nvidia has solidified its position as a leader in the AI boom. The cutting-edge computer chips that Nvidia produces are what make AI and AI data centers possible, and that has made Nvidia the world’s most valuable company by market cap — $5 trillion this year.

“Today’s news will not slow Nvidia,” an Nvidia spokesperson said. “Jensen is committed to continuing to lead Nvidia as CEO without interruption.”

A committee of independent directors, working with outside counsel, will oversee the investigation, the board said in a statement .

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