alt Hacker NewsThe basic allegations are:
* Megaspeed was evading US sanctions against China
* Megaspeed CEO was a Chinese state agent
* Huang was sleeping with Megaspeed CEO
Therefore, one of the following must be true:
(1) [Unlikely] Huang knowingly supported the evasion of sanctions. If so, he should be fired for breaking the law.
(2) Huang was tricked. If so, his judgement is now suspect.
Huang's argument is (2). In this case, the evalaution of his judgement is:
(A) Is this a one-off mistake? If so, he should be retained - he's human.
(B) Is this a pattern? If so, he should be fired - he's an ongoing risk (e.g., via regulatory action).
Huang resigned because the second affair indicated (B) - he's an ongoing risk.
As a result, the question of "who knew what when" is actually beside the point. Retaining Huang risks ongoing, overwhelming government action for evading sanctions - and the board members want 0 personal liability in that investigation.
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As both of the people you're talking about are named Huang, shortening to just that name is a little confusing.
He should be arrested for evading billions in sanctions and the companies leadership arrested as well for enabling the behavior. This is far beyond just being fired.
From three allegations, you can't say anything is true. We do know that one of the allegations is true (they were having sex), but that doesn't really tell us much.
Or 3) Huang knew what Huang was doing with the chips and looked the other way because he was sleeping with her.
If Huang is compromised, a national security risk and must go what are the implications of knowingly flying said national security risk on AF-1? Is it a pattern?
US sanction law seems to be really scary. Everyone is scared of it.
I used to work at a company where the sanction was around something mundane like Excel or something, and we had to make it an urgent priority to ban all users from Russia to access ... spinning the wheel ... our spreadsheet functionality.
My co-workers and I found it funny that US decided to ban Russia from using an online Excel-like functionality.
(2)(A)(i) Did he and others at Nvidia try to cover it up?
Him not knowing the sanctions were being evaded seems absolutely unreasonable to me. we're talking about millions of 60k$+ gpus.
The idea that he would somehow not know that they mostly end up in China is ridiculous to me. That guy must be connected up the wazu
"""Therefore, one of the following must be true:
(1) [Unlikely] Huang knowingly supported the evasion of sanctions. If so, he should be fired for breaking the law.
(2) Huang was tricked. If so, his judgement is now suspect.""
No - it's absolutely not a choice between those two things and neither are likely.
A company bought some chips from Nvidia - and illegally moved some to China.
That's it.
Jenson knows many of Nvidias customers. Probably thousands.
He's not 'tricked' because he doesn't have some magical 'judge of character' - the insinuation is preposterous.
--> Companies do illegal stuff all the timee; this one was skirting export laws.
That's it.
He's not a mind reader, and she's probably not a spy either, I'm sure she told the CCP some things because that's how it works in China, just as US citizens tell US gov a lot of things as well.
Ultimately he bears some responsibility, and there's enough concern to look into it, but this is Occam's Razor - the lady was back door shipping gear, just as thousands of business do.
Just as more than 50% of the materials in Russian cruise missiles are 'made in USA' - and illegal 'smuggled' into Russia, and by 'smuggled' I mean sent in the regular mail.