An internal post urging the board to consider employee sentiment about Nvidia’s former CEO has drawn more than 1,600 comments, the majority in full support of reinstalling him.
They are likely scared because most of them have stock options no doubt. Huang was a rarity - a CEO who was also an engineer who understood chip making so he was uniquely fit for the job. He was also with the company it’s entire existence. He clearly could not handle being launched into tech bro stardom in recent years and made dumb fucking choices. Not to mention any new guy will likely be more willing to make cuts should the stock take further hits from this scandal.
NVidia doesn’t actually make chips, it’s a design shop with TSMC fabbing the silicon. So you’re looking at a wider selection of people who ran big ASIC and CPU design groups. There’s one of those inside Intel, which also does fabrication. Apple, Qualcomm, and others similarly. AMD even (Huang is distantly related to Lisa Su). An AMD-NVidia merger could be a thing of fanfiction if NVidia wasn’t already in enough antitrust trouble. Maybe Huang and Su could even swap places, lol.
I know they don’t make them. I was saying knowing how the chips are manufactured at the engineering level to make sure suppliers are doing things properly is not a skill most CEOs have.
Yeah it’s a niche specialty but Huang isn’t unique in the world in terms of doing that stuff. If I were recruiting his replacement I’d consider hunting the AI teams at Google, Facebook, etc. rather than chip fab stuff.
They are likely scared because most of them have stock options no doubt. Huang was a rarity - a CEO who was also an engineer who understood chip making so he was uniquely fit for the job. He was also with the company it’s entire existence. He clearly could not handle being launched into tech bro stardom in recent years and made dumb fucking choices. Not to mention any new guy will likely be more willing to make cuts should the stock take further hits from this scandal.
How much of the petition is digital? I wouldn’t trust them not to just use one of their toys to spoof a list of heartfelt demands
Great stuff here: https://lemmy.ml/post/55238566
NVidia doesn’t actually make chips, it’s a design shop with TSMC fabbing the silicon. So you’re looking at a wider selection of people who ran big ASIC and CPU design groups. There’s one of those inside Intel, which also does fabrication. Apple, Qualcomm, and others similarly. AMD even (Huang is distantly related to Lisa Su). An AMD-NVidia merger could be a thing of fanfiction if NVidia wasn’t already in enough antitrust trouble. Maybe Huang and Su could even swap places, lol.
I know they don’t make them. I was saying knowing how the chips are manufactured at the engineering level to make sure suppliers are doing things properly is not a skill most CEOs have.
Yeah it’s a niche specialty but Huang isn’t unique in the world in terms of doing that stuff. If I were recruiting his replacement I’d consider hunting the AI teams at Google, Facebook, etc. rather than chip fab stuff.