Elon Musk has said he signed a petition calling for Jensen Huang to be reinstated as chief executive of Nvidia, a day after Huang resigned from the company he founded and led for 33 years.
Musk made the statement on his X account, Hiru News reported, citing The Washington Post, which first reported his intervention on Friday.
Thousands of people including prominent figures in the technology industry have backed the petition, according to the report. Its signatories say they are concerned that Huang was removed without adequate due process.
Separately, Wired reported that a request for Huang’s reinstatement has circulated inside Nvidia itself, attracting more than 1,600 comments, a majority of them supporting his return.
How Nvidia got here
Huang resigned after acknowledging a relationship with a woman who some in the intelligence community have alleged was a Chinese spy. Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress has taken over as interim chief executive.
The resignation closed a turbulent week for the company, whose shares fell sharply as the investigation into Huang became public, and he has since been summoned to testify before Congress.
A note on sourcing
Hiru News is the only newsroom on this desk’s verified list to have carried the petition story so far. The Washington Post is linked above as the originating report, but it is not among the outlets this site counts toward its credibility rating. The major international outlets this desk checked — CNN and Al Jazeera — had filed on the resignation and its fallout but not on the petition at the time of writing.
Nvidia’s board has not publicly responded to the petition, and none of the reports indicates that it is considering reversing the decision.
