TechCrunch weighs possible successors to Nvidia's Jensen Huang

Key points

• Kalshi traders put Huang's odds of surviving the week at 30%, TechCrunch reports
• The New York Times reported that Kimberly Powell, an Nvidia executive reporting to Huang, was also his paramour, according to five sources
• Yale's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld suggested Eric Schmidt, while TechCrunch also lists Lisa Su, Lip-Bu Tan, Bret Taylor, Ian Buck and Lori Huang

TechCrunch has drawn up a list of possible successors to Jensen Huang as Nvidia's chief executive, after the company's founder admitted an extramarital affair. The outlet reports that traders on Kalshi put his odds of surviving the week at 30%.

TechCrunch says the board members Huang has enriched are unlikely to cut him loose entirely and could keep him as chairman, a role Nvidia does not have. No succession plan is apparent, so the outlet offers its own candidates. They include AMD's Lisa Su, a distant cousin of Huang, and Eric Schmidt, the pick of Yale School of Management's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, who said Schmidt could "parachute in tomorrow".

Others named are Intel's Lip-Bu Tan, Sierra's Bret Taylor, Nvidia's CUDA developer Ian Buck, hardware engineering head Andrew Bell and chief financial officer Colette Kress. TechCrunch also floats Huang's wife Lori Huang, who worked as a microchip engineer at Silicon Graphics and now co-leads the family trusts.

The piece follows a turbulent period for Intel, which reported third-quarter revenue up 21% to $16.5bn last month and then warned that fourth-quarter results would fall short of Wall Street's forecasts.

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