Nvidia crisis: Musk backs petition to reinstate Jensen Huang

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has thrown his value down calls for the reinstatement of Jensen Huang arsenic Chief Executive Officer of Nvidia, saying helium would motion a petition seeking the erstwhile CEO's return.

Musk remarked successful a remark connected X connected Friday portion responding to a station by Yun-Ta Sai, a elder unit technologist astatine Tesla, who urged Nvidia employees to instrumentality enactment if they wanted Huang reinstated.

"A petition is underway to reinstate Jensen, and I’m signing it too," Musk wrote.

Sai had argued that Nvidia employees, peculiarly its engineers, had the corporate power to situation the company's enactment decision, stressing that experienced Graphics Processing Unit, GPU, engineers were hard to find and replace.

"If NVIDIA employees privation Jensen back, they should commencement with 'NVIDIA is thing without its people' - resign and chill.

"Good GPU engineers are precise hard to find and adjacent harder to regenerate than ML engineers.

"Engineers should instrumentality their destiny into their ain hands if they emotion the company. They signifier and present the institution mission, not the boards," Sai wrote.

The improvement comes hardly days aft Huang's abrupt resignation from Nvidia, the chipmaking elephantine helium co-founded successful 1993 and led fo...