New Delhi, Nov. 10 -- Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang had publicly credited his wife, Lori Huang, for supporting his career and helping him build the chipmaking giant just five months before admitting to being unfaithful to her.

In a May appearance on the How I Built This podcast, Huang spoke about the sacrifices his wife made while he was building Nvidia. He described Lori as the person who took care of their family while he focused on his professional ambitions.

"But if you're going to build a company, you need somebody strong and you need somebody amazing like my wife. And she took care of everything," Huang said during the podcast.

Recalling how his demanding academic and professional commitments kept him away from important...