“Had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy” is how everyone’s covering this but even that framing is kind of the limited hangout cover story. Makes it sound like she was leaking trade secrets to the Chinese governent and that’s the scandal.
What he had was an improper business relationship with essentially a white-collar smuggler. He was going around export sanctions through shady shell companies in Singapore and she was helping him do it. To the extent of maybe 1/5 of the chips NVidia was selling being diverted to the Chinese black market.
It hardly matters that he was cheating on his wife with her too, or whether she was an actual CCP intelligence asset. At least, not to Jensen because neither of those things would lead to prison time.
“Chipmaker sells chips” is less salacious than cheating. It’s what sticks out in people’s minds.
And… its not like these things are actually key to anyone’s ‘national security’, despite what lawmakers and the advertising departments of hyperscalers say. You get an edge in how quickly you can iterate software. Big whoop. This has less strategic impact than a fan forum for War Thunder.
“Had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy” is how everyone’s covering this but even that framing is kind of the limited hangout cover story. Makes it sound like she was leaking trade secrets to the Chinese governent and that’s the scandal.
What he had was an improper business relationship with essentially a white-collar smuggler. He was going around export sanctions through shady shell companies in Singapore and she was helping him do it. To the extent of maybe 1/5 of the chips NVidia was selling being diverted to the Chinese black market.
It hardly matters that he was cheating on his wife with her too, or whether she was an actual CCP intelligence asset. At least, not to Jensen because neither of those things would lead to prison time.
“Chipmaker sells chips” is less salacious than cheating. It’s what sticks out in people’s minds.
And… its not like these things are actually key to anyone’s ‘national security’, despite what lawmakers and the advertising departments of hyperscalers say. You get an edge in how quickly you can iterate software. Big whoop. This has less strategic impact than a fan forum for War Thunder.
For 3 years also. It was not a one time thing.