India, Nov. 10 -- Nvidia, considered among the pioneers of America's AI revolution, was rocked after its co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang admitted to having an affair with a woman suspected to be a Chinese spy, triggering an internal investigation and the largest crisis in the history of the multi-trillion-dollar chipmaker.

Jensen Huang's affair with Alice Huang, a former executive at the Singapore-based Megaspeed, goes well beyond Huang's immediate family and has major implications for US national security, technology and geopolitics, as Nvidia sits at the heart of the global AI race and the US-China rivalry. Trump has announced that the FBI is now investigating the alleged affair, although he did not provide details.

Huang has been an ...