Jensen Huang has resigned as president and chief executive of NVIDIA, and from its board, with immediate effect, the company announced on 12 November. Chief financial officer Colette Kress is now interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent successor, and former Synopsys chief Harvey C. Jones becomes NVIDIA's first chair of the board.
Quick facts
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- Interim CEO: Colette Kress, who stays on as CFO. She has been NVIDIA's CFO since September 2013.
- The board will consider internal and external candidates for the permanent job.
- NVIDIA says operations, customer commitments and the product roadmap continue "without interruption".
- Third-quarter results still arrive on 17 November at about 1:20pm Pacific time, 5:20am on 18 November in Malaysia.
Where Malaysia comes in
Huang was in the room when YTL's NVIDIA deal was announced. YTL Power International unveiled its collaboration with NVIDIA on 8 December 2023 at a meeting between Huang and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, with plans to host the AI infrastructure at the YTL Green Data Center Park in Kulai, Johor.
That infrastructure is now a public price list. YTL AI Cloud's GPU pricing page listed a unit it labels "NVIDIA GB200", with 192GB of HBM3e memory, at RM68.80 an hour on demand when we checked it on 14 November. The page does not say whether that unit is a full Grace Blackwell superchip or a share of one; NVIDIA's own GB200 superchip pairs one Grace CPU with two Blackwell GPUs.
YTL says the platform passed NVIDIA's own checks: it reported reaching NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud status on 31 May 2026 after benchmarking a 512-GPU environment.
The Johor site is meant to be big. YTL AI Cloud's own description says Phase 1 scales to 500MW on one campus.
What NVIDIA has said, and what it has not
The resignation notice gives no reason for Huang's departure. It follows two earlier board statements. On 8 November the board opened an independent investigation "in light of recent reporting" that Huang had been the target of a foreign intelligence effort, adding that it had "no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised". On 10 November the independent directors named former acting US Attorney Joon H. Kim and the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to run it. NVIDIA has published no findings.
Kress, in the same release, said she would build on "the extraordinary foundation Jensen created over the last 33 years".
What changes for Malaysian customers
Neither company has said. The board's statement that customer commitments continue is the line that matters to anyone renting GB200 time in Johor, and none of the NVIDIA and YTL statements linked in this story, as of 14 November, mentions any change to GB200 supply or pricing. That is an absence of announcements, not a promise that nothing will change. Malaysia's own permit rules on high-end AI chips are a separate question that the CEO change does not answer.
NVIDIA's next scheduled financial report is its third-quarter result, at 5:20am Malaysian time on 18 November.
