Reuters: Huang Renxun is rumored to have had an extramarital affair with Chinese businesswoman Huang Le and once misled Huida’s legal affairs chief

(Central News Agency, San Francisco, Comprehensive Foreign Reports on the 13th) Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter and internal communications, that former Huida CEO Jen-Hsun Huang had misled many of the company's top executives, including Legal Chief Ted and Marketing Chief Wagenfeld, about the nature of his relationship with Chinese businesswoman Huang Le.

Reuters reviewed multiple exchanges of messages in October without quoting them verbatim and was the first to report the contents.

According to reports, Huang Renxun and Alice Huang had an extramarital affair. Huang Jen-Hsun apologized for being unfaithful to his wife and disappointing the company in a statement on the 8th of this month, but did not mention Huang Le.

Huang Le was a former director of Megaspeed International, a client of NVIDIA, and the United States is already investigating whether she may conduct espionage on behalf of China. Huang Renxun and Huang Le have the same surname, but are not related.

The New York Times reported on the 11th that Huang also had an extramarital affair with Kimberly Powell, vice president of Huida Healthcare. Reuters reported yesterday that Huang had a close relationship with another Huida employee.

Huang Renxun resigned as CEO of Huida yesterday, plummeting from the peak of the chip industry. He is one of the core technology pioneers of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom in recent years.

Unnamed people familiar with the matter said that media questions last fall and October this year made some Huida executives pay attention to Huang Renxun's relationship with Megaspeed and Huang Le. In both responses, Huang Renxun said that the interaction between the two parties was appropriate. Reuters only reviewed information exchanges in October this year and did not review relevant information from last year.

In two separate messages in October, Huang told executives such as Tim Teter and Alison Wagonfeld that these interactions reflected standard business dealings with customers. He also stated in other messages that his interactions with Megaspeed were routine.

People familiar with the matter said that Huang also discussed taking legal action against The New York Times after the New York Times published an article in October last year that brought attention to the public meeting between Huang and Huang Le.

People familiar with the matter also said the article prompted Huang to communicate with some Huida executives last year about their interactions, but did not describe the relationship as an extramarital affair. In the end, neither Huida nor Huang filed a lawsuit against The New York Times. A spokesman for The Times said the Times had not received any legal requests.

It is unclear when the relationship between Huang Renxun and Huang Le developed into a close relationship. Internet photos reviewed by Reuters show that the two have appeared together in the United States, China and other places, dating back to December 2023. Beijing authorities deny that Huang Le is a spy.