Trump proposes Tim Cook, president of Apple, to replace Huang at the head of Nvidia after the scandal over his infidelities

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, proposed this Thursday that Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, replace Jensen Huang at the head of Nvidia after the latter submitted his resignation amid the scandal over his extramarital affairs and his alleged links with a businesswoman investigated for espionage for China.

"A legend replaces a legend," the US president said in a message published on his social network, Truth Social, in which he defended Cook taking over the leadership of the semiconductor giant. At the moment, Nvidia has not announced a definitive replacement for Huang and has appointed its current financial director, Colette Kress, on an interim basis.

The proposal comes after Huang, co-founder of Nvidia in 1993, resigned this Thursday with immediate effect as CEO, president and member of the company's board of directors. His departure comes after two extramarital affairs were uncovered, one of them with Alice Huang, a Chinese businesswoman suspected of collaborating with Beijing's intelligence services, and another with an Nvidia worker herself.

The case has sparked an internal investigation in the company and has also aroused the interest of the FBI, as confirmed this week by Trump himself. The US president had until now defended Huang, whom he described as an "extremely honorable" and "very upright" person, and assured that he trusted his version that he was unaware of the businesswoman's alleged links with Chinese espionage.

Nvidia, for its part, had indicated that it had no reason to believe that its business secrets or US national security had been compromised. The company now faces the search for a new CEO after more than three decades under the leadership of Huang, who has become one of the most influential figures in the technology sector due to the rise of chips used in artificial intelligence.