What we know about Nvidia's probe into CEO Jensen Huang

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is under investigation by the board to determine if he was the subject of a foreign intelligence operation, following a media report connecting him to a Chinese businesswoman suspected of passing information to Beijing. The New York Times published this story last month, claiming Huang had a relationship with Alice Huang, an unrelated former executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed.

US authorities had previously investigated Alice Huang, concluding she was a Chinese intelligence asset. Jensen Huang, 63, co-founded Nvidia in 1993 with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem and has served as the company's leader since then. Born in Taiwan and raised in the US, Huang has become a prominent figure in the AI revolution, transforming Nvidia from a video-game graphics chip maker into the world's leading supplier of AI processors.

His leather jackets and high-profile product launches have cemented his image as one of the few long-standing founder CEOs in Silicon Valley.