atomsymbolIt is likely that many of the "Current Nvidians" who signed the petition are those who don't know what they will be doing at Nvidia without Jensen. Those who didn't sign are more likely to know what Nvidia's future looks like.

Or it's just bots.

Dr. DroThis is actually a worst-case scenario, IMHO. Especially if there is nothing stopping Jensen from creating another GPU company. His reputation and expertise will have many following him, with ample funding all but secured.

Well, if that happens, he won't be able to bring the VHDL/Verilog/etc implementiation of Nvidia GPUs into his new company, nor the implementation of the CUDA software package.

atomsymbolIt is likely that many of the "Current Nvidians" who signed the petition are those who don't know what they will be doing at Nvidia without Jensen. Those who didn't sign are more likely to know what Nvidia's future looks like.

I can only assume the "nvidians" who signed the petition know what Jensen's dirty laundry is, or have some themselves.
The term "Nvidians" strikes me as weird, like calling their PR people "evangelists" it's very cult like.

BigshrimpI still do not understand the conflation of a country versus Nvidia, which is a company with some potential illegal activities that are being investigated by authorities for potential crimes. Why are they being used in the same context? Someone joking about people investing in a potentially dying company is just humor poking fun at them potentially losing more money for their own actions... There is no actual harm to someone other than to their ego for making such a silly joke.

It seems like deflection, some people can't handle criticisms of the their jacket man so are taking this personally, even trying to throw the blame at another company. Having obsessions over a rich billionaire can't be healthy, especially one caught up in corruption and alleged extra marital affairs.

BrainCruserIntel has objectively more and better enginners than nvidia. It also has more professional management with more "business acumen". Nvidia had a workaholic asian with 25000 engineers focused on his vision. Intel can barely make processors these days. Nvidia pushed the needle on AI enough to make up the difference between ChatGPT6 and Opus 5.5, and ChatGPT-3. Without nvidia today you would be at chatGPT 3.

Well I think that's a good thing, AI should be left to dedicated hardware. Nvidia as a company with this news coming out seems as if there might have been a bunch of unprofessional things going on from people in high positions. If the allegations are true then the board and anyone close to Jensen had to have known.

ZoneDymowhat a world....nobody cares about anything

Not the world ....only the idiots !

Hecate91The term "Nvidians" strikes me as weird, like calling their PR people "evangelists" it's very cult like.

It's silly but many American tech companies, lacking taste in good language, do this: Amazonians, Googlers, Microsofties, Ants, and so on. Corporate culture is, to some extent, cultish.

Hecate91It seems like deflection, some people can't handle criticisms of the their jacket man so are taking this personally, even trying to throw the blame at another company. Having obsessions over a rich billionaire can't be healthy, especially one caught up in corruption and alleged extra marital affairs.

Well I think that's a good thing, AI should be left to dedicated hardware. Nvidia as a company with this news coming out seems as if there might have been a bunch of unprofessional things going on from people in high positions. If the allegations are true then the board and anyone close to Jensen had to have known.

I think we need to separate two different and important strands: on one side, we have what Jensen did; and on the other side, we have something rather suspicious about how all this came out, in terms of time. The question is, why, and why now? What is the overarching motive? Who will be put next on the guillotine? Who is using Jensen's foibles to advance their own agenda?

wNotyarDAt least the ousting wasn't public.

Indeed. He was simply sacked behind the closed doors, in a civilised way. This is just the beginning.

Dyatlov ANvidia without Jensen is like tee without sugar.

Tea without sugar is healthier, indeed.

Dr. Drogiven how public the situation has been made, I think he has to stand fair trial with everyone's interests accounted for.

Indeed. There is already a class action lawsuit. A lot of dirt might come out, things that GN analyses in this video.

the54thvoidYou ever watch the cartoons where pianos fall on peoples heads? They walk away. It's a comedy of errors. Like the people supporting that petition.

It is definitely not a death threat. :kookoo:

I didn't, and anyone who would just come here without context will just be clueless. Cultural differences, I guess. We're not all americans, neither are we watching the same things on TV (if you have one to begin with, I completely stopped watching TV several years ago).

ZoneDymowhat a world....nobody cares about anything

I wouldn't draw any conclusions from this, the vast majority of these don't appear to be legitimate. Lot of joke names in there and way too easy for bots to sign. Many of the signatories that actually bothered to add text, even the claimed Nvidia employees, copy pasted text or included generic non-specific text. I'd expect some Nvidia employees to actually put a personal reason as to why they'd want him to stay and not just generic text.

It's actually kind of wild they couldn't do a better job at faking the comments and adding variety. I mean half of Nvidia employees are millionaires technically. Surely they can afford to spin up many different AI agents to put different spins on the comments. It's just pure laziness that they seemingly used one template to feed the AI to generate the comments. Most of them read the same just in a different order.

AntiX3DGlazerLikely vibecoded

100% vibecoded. Professional level formatting but inconsistent. Obvious giveaway is the colors, AI sucks at them. Too high contrast and hurts the eyes. The metallic effect on the Signatories is cheap looking and poor readability. It's always a dead givaway that a website is AI generated when the design is professional but there are beginner level mistakes.

NathaaabThe public circus in full effect, with all the news outlets writing about rumors for days. It really looks like other powerful people didn't like his view and removed him for their best interests.
Other CEOs have failed as husbands before and have been implied in scandals like this before, and they haven't been thrown out within days. Something is definitely up behind the scenes.

Me baiting fanboys aside. Time will tell or maybe not since if any investigation are invites and not summon Nvidia and Jensen have declined in the past.
Pro Jensen people are calling this a witch hunt and personally I kinda agree but the current situation being what it is they should have expected something as a lot of people are angry at the current situation and just want it to end and let's face it either way Jensen and Nvidia have a lot of questions to answer regardless of what position Jensen currently has.

MikOnTopGGIts all staged. Everything happened to quickly and smoothly.

The evidence of illicit GPU smuggling must have been overwhelmingly powerful.
The sacking of Jensen is just the beginning. It has opened a Pandora box, both in Silicon Valley and on the other coast of the country. Jensen was not the only person engaged in breaching the export controls. There are enablers too. Stay tuned.

Tek-CheckThe evidence of illicit GPU smuggling must have been overwhelmingly powerful.
The sacking of Jensen is just the beginning. It has opened a Pandora box, both in Silicon Valley and on the other side of the country. Jensen was not the only person engaged in breaching the export controls. There are enablers too. Stay tuned.

Pretty much this.

cadaveca4. Sell it all to Intel.
:toast:

Hahaha! Intel has enough of their own troubles. They don't need more.

Dr. DroMy personal view is that he was forced out, and that there are many, many things that are unexplained and don't match the official rhetoric. Yet it remains that Nvidia is crazy valuable and of particular interest to the powers that be, I genuinely think that there is a huge conflict of interest between what Jensen does and what others want him to do - I personally support him regardless, I don't think Nvidia is Nvidia without him at the helm.

Why stand behind someone when you don't know the extent of what they committed?

Didn't you also have your 12V2X6 connector burn up as well?

robergemsgarbage person.

Prepare to be vindicated for those feelings. Now that he's out, a lot of shit is going to come out, because journalists are only interested if they smell blood.

lexluthermiesterCrazy things are coming, there's no stopping it. I wouldn't want to be Nadella right now either. That guy is next and his removal will be just as messy.

Elon too has many questions to answer. Wait until new Congress and Senate are sworn in January and then several investigative committees should start their work.

evernessinceWhy stand behind someone when you don't know the extent of what they committed?

Did you also have your 12V2X6 connector burn up as well?

Every GPU I have ever owned and every GPU I will ever own put together isn't gonna reflect the smallest fragment of their revenues this... week, and I am not a shareholder. Imagine that! I'm a gamer and hobbyist, I literally have no stake in this.

Yes my card melted, fortunately I was looked after, they replaced it and gave me another one. Why hold grudges?

GeoffreyAThen, there is the circular financing, the GPU smuggling and whether he was in the know, all that stuff.

This will be the key focus, as it hits at the heart of AI industry, it's linked to investors and gigantic amount of money, export control and enablers who helped breach the export controls, etc. The plot is thickening. There could easily be serious shock waves sent through political, legal, financial and tech establishments.

This petition to bring back Jensen is just braindead nonsense and distraction from very serious issues that need to be addressed in coming months. Throwing Jensen under the bus has just triggered many things at once.

atomsymbolWell, if that happens, he won't be able to bring the VHDL/Verilog/etc implementiation of Nvidia GPUs into his new company, nor the implementation of the CUDA software package.

Apparently there's a job opening at Terafab specifically created for Jensen, he could probably start a GPU company there utilizing an open sourced version of CUDA that ironically Jensen's company threw a cease and desist at.

GeoffreyAIt's silly but many American tech companies, lacking taste in good language, do this: Amazonians, Googlers, Microsofties, Ants, and so on. Corporate culture is, to some extent, cultish.

I'm sure there's some silliness in every tech company, but if these signatures aren't all AI bots then I think the corruption and cult like behavior goes too deep.

GeoffreyAI think we need to separate two different and important strands: on one side, we have what Jensen did; and on the other side, we have something rather suspicious about how all this came out, in terms of time. The question is, why, and why now? What is the overarching motive? Who will be put next on the guillotine? Who is using Jensen's foibles to advance their own agenda?

I don't understand why some think this is simply a witch hunt to get him out, or even diluting the things he did to down to mere foibles. The GPU smuggling was known about a year ago, people in power decided to look away until just recently because of a political change. And I think the AI circular economy along with the deals Jensen was making with companies like openAI and Anthropic should've been looked into as well, but those were also pushed under the rug for the same reasons GPU smuggling was ignored.

lexluthermiesterLogged into facebook for the first time in a while, and wouldn't you know it? I was greeted with umpteen-million posts from morons rallying to reinstate Jensen. All of them seemingly blissfully ignorant to the FACT that the Nvidia board of directors, or the shareholders, can not lawfully reinstate him in any capacity to the company. The DOJ and SEC would simultaneously move to shutdown the company, and they would succeed.

So to all those who are in support of this clueless notion;

Jensen Huang is gone! He can not and will not return to Nvidia. This is FACT! No petition or anything else will bring him back. Full stop. STHU about it!

There are some very powerful people who support Jensen wanting him back, what if they could get him reinstated? I'm wondering on this because it's not like the law has mattered to quite a few of those same people wanting him back.
However Jensen has already left on his own, I suspect many of these signatures and rally cries for him back are AI bots, the whole petition site could be AI slop as well. The board would've voted him out anyway if they had taken a fair vote, but I wonder if Jensen left before he would have been found out for GPU smuggling or the circular financing which is potential fraud, but I may be wrong on that.

FR3D1So far, he has only been guilty of one extramarital affair. There are regions, even belief systems, where this is considered good form.

He's the CEO of a US company, cheating on your wife is more often than not looked down upon no matter what someones religious beliefs are.
As a few examples, the Intel CEO was ousted for having an affair, so was the Amazon CEO.
Although I suspect many who want to ignore the allegations are from regions or have beliefs supporting infidelity, or maybe people are on so much cope they'd rather ignore any wrongdoing.

FR3D1Malicious wishes. Insults. The quality of your posts has increasingly declined of late.

What malicious wishes? I never wished them any harm.
But does calling these greedy corrupt people for what they are bother you? The irony of defending them but tossing an insult at me, lol.

FR3D1High treason and national treason. Two completely different worlds. You mean the latter?
#Conjectures

Probably treason at a US national security level by breaking the export restrictions, but I'm not a lawyer or criminal law professional.

Dr. DroEvery GPU I have ever owned and every GPU I will ever own put together isn't gonna reflect the smallest fragment of their revenues this... week, and I am not a shareholder. Imagine that! I'm a gamer and hobbyist, I literally have no stake in this.

Yes my card melted, fortunately I was looked after, they replaced it and gave me another one. Why hold grudges?

It's not about holding grudges, it's about standing up for yourself instead of bending over. It doesn't matter if your individual contribution is significant or not, there's something called self respect.

I see you liking the comment claiming it was staged with zero proof. This is some stockholm syndrome stuff right here.

Brilliant analysis of Nvidia's business model and current situation by Patrick Boyle, dismantling any attempts, such as this shameful petition, to portray Jensen as an innocent businessman who was merely a victim of larger forces and who should come back.

lexluthermiesterThis is not a bad idea!

Intel can barely deal with their own internal issues at the moment.
I don't believe they would be able to take another, explosive corporate burden.

evernessinceIt's not about holding grudges, it's about standing up for yourself instead of bending over. It doesn't matter if your individual contribution is significant or not, there's something called self respect.

I see you liking the comment claiming it was staged with zero proof. This is some stockholm syndrome stuff right here.

No comment about self-respect, especially after the years I spent as a Radeon diehard. But honestly yeah I think there isn't just some, there's a lot they aren't telling us about this story. Without concise and irrefutable proof that Jensen is compromised and that his lover is a foreign intelligence asset, I don't think he should've been ousted.

This hysterical petition is just a storm in a cup of tea... It will be forgotten as fast as it emerged.

Luckily, Jensen left without hysteria because he knows he cannot fight in public the allegations related to GPU smuggling and breaches in export control laws. However, he could, speak true to power and take several enablers down with him. It's going to be fascinating to see how court cases and congressional hearings unfold in coming months. This scandal has ignited a can of worms. It will get more ugly before it gets any better.
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evernessinceIt's not about holding grudges, it's about standing up for yourself instead of bending over. It doesn't matter if your individual contribution is significant or not, there's something called self respect.

I see you liking the comment claiming it was staged with zero proof. This is some stockholm syndrome stuff right here.

The stockholm syndrome was strong regarding the 12v2x6 connector, many didn't believe it to be a problem until it happened to them.
IMO, there is self respect in not handing a company your money after you've been burned by a defective product, however if some can't have self respect with their purchases, then I don't have any expectation for self respect defending a person at the helm of helping destroy the PC gaming industry through greed and anti-competition.
Some of the reactions here don't surprise me, although those trying to ignore the GPU smuggling, and how corrupt the entire industry is for supporting the AI circular financial ponzi scheme actually does surprise me.

Tek-CheckIntel can barely deal with their own internal issues at the moment.
I don't believe they would be able to take another, explosive corporate burden.

Intel couldn't handle their own consumer dGPU market, they've fully shifted over to AI for easy profit margins.
I doubt Intel would want all the headache and controvery to be associated with Nvidia as a company either.

I think Jensen Huang would be of greater service to the planet if he started working for Elon Musk, helping Elon establish the world’s largest chip factory (the "Terafab") in the U.S., as well as a facility for manufacturing lithography equipment—on par with or even better than ASML—to we don't depend exclusively on them (ASML and TSMC) and their exorbitant prices.

Dyatlov AI am signing too, Nvidia without Jensen is like tee without sugar.

I prefer coffee.

Darmok N JaladHe worked at an “at will” employer, and he resigned. What “due process” is he owed? I wonder if so many NVIDIA employees and shareholders signed it because they know they are in for rough sailing as the company must reorg to a more traditional mega-corp leadership structure, and they also have no idea who will now steer the ship that only the former captain really knew how to pilot.

There were so many eggs in one basket at NVIDIA that this could be really rough for a while, so let’s just pretend everything is fine.

THISSS..... i doubt he was "training" anyone to take his place... its not like when Steve Jobs was steeping aside or Bill was handing it off, those were smooth transitions probably YEARS in the building.

Jensen likely jumped ship because of outside pressure and criminal charges that would come.

These guys don't want the values of their shares decreased too much... heck i would think nobody does, expect those betting against the company.