Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang admitted in an internal memo to staff that he engaged in an extramarital affair. The fallout was immediate.
Huang now faces an internal corporate investigation into whether he was the target of a foreign intelligence operation after being linked to a Chinese businesswoman accused of passing information to Beijing. Company executives launched the security review to determine whether proprietary technological data or executive communications were compromised.
"I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no justification for what I did," Huang wrote in the message to Nvidia employees, adding that he took full responsibility for his conduct.
The disclosure has thrust Huang's 41-year marriage to Lori Mills into unsparing public view. The pair met in the early 1980s at Oregon State University, where Huang approached Mills in an electrical engineering class when he was 17 years old and asked her to be his laboratory partner. They married in 1985—the same year Mills completed her degree in electrical engineering.
Before stepping back to raise their family and run charitable initiatives, Mills built her own technical credentials as a microchip designer at Hewlett-Packard. In 2007, the couple founded the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation, pouring millions into higher education, healthcare, and advanced scientific research. Their two adult children both work inside Nvidia's enterprise ranks—daughter Madison Huang serves as a senior director of product and technical marketing for physical artificial intelligence platforms, while son Spencer Huang manages robotics software development.
Mills has not issued a public response regarding the admission. Internal investigators at Nvidia are continuing their review into company security safeguards and the operational reach of the alleged foreign intelligence effort.