Nvidia’s board has approached UK chipmaker Arm Holdings chief executive Rene Haas in its search for a potential successor to Jensen Huang, the Financial Times reports citing people familiar with the matter.
Huang stepped down on Thursday after revelations of extramarital affairs, including one involving an alleged Chinese spy, plunging the chip maker into crisis and sending shockwaves across an artificial intelligence industry he helped bankroll.
Haas’ name has been making the rounds among analysts since Huang’s exit.
He spent seven formative years at Nvidia, rising to vice president and general manager of its computing products business, before joining Arm in 2013.
He is among several candidates being considered and there is no guarantee he will be offered the job or accept it, the FT reported.
Nvidia’s finance chief Colette Kress is the interim chief executive.
Arm declined to comment while Nvidia did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Reuters could not independently verify the report.
Haas became Arm chief exeuctive in 2022, overseeing the company’s Nasdaq listing in 2023.
Arm designs processor architectures and licenses them to other companies that develop chip designs.
Historically its strength has been in mobile phones and it is expanding into computers.
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