Ousted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with a second employee, according to two people familiar with the matter, Reuters has learned. The revelation follows two other extramarital affairs that led to his resignation on Thursday. The two women named in the reports are Alice Huang, whom US intelligence suspects of being a Chinese spy, and Kimberly Powell, Nvidia's vice president of health care. Reuters is not naming the second employee, and attempts to reach her were not successful.

Nvidia declined to comment. Powell, Jensen Huang and a representative for Nvidia's board did not reply to requests for comment, and Alice Huang could not be reached. Huang had earlier admitted to an affair in a November 8 statement following reports of his relationship with Alice Huang, without referring to her by name. Forbes noted that he has only formally acknowledged one of the three affairs now alleged.S1S2

The departure of Huang, who is 63 and married, could disrupt the AI industry he helped shape. Nvidia used its financial strength to help build an industry around AI through complex financial arrangements that ease the purchase of its chips, backing cloud computing companies and AI labs to do so. Nvidia's board appointed finance chief Colette Kress as interim CEO while it searches for a permanent replacement, considering both internal and external candidates.S1

Earlier this month, the board had launched a probe, led by independent directors with outside legal counsel, into whether Huang had been targeted by a foreign intelligence operation, and it had expressed confidence in him at the time. Shares fell 5.5% on Thursday in active trading and have shed more than 30% of their value since an early October peak.S1