> Seriously why would you take part in this?

Because no one else can fill the shoes. The best that the next CEO can do is either:

a) make improvements on what exists, and thus effectively stagnate in a moving hardware industry, or

b) cut staff (which Nvidia has only done twice in its history: 1996 (near-bankruptcy), and around 2008 (360 / 6.5%), right in the middle of ironing out the Tesla architecture).

The moment their CFO took over, they already announced layoffs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BayAreaTalk/comments/1xu5wzy/nvidia...

The CFO is almost never one that makes unique product decisions.