Nvidia's top board candidate says he would 'rather die than take over as CEO'

BlockBeats news, November 13 - Semiconductor research firm SemiAnalysis published a research report regarding Jensen Huang's resignation, noting that although the board has appointed Colette Kress as interim CEO, they prefer that the official CEO not have a financial background. Therefore, the selection of the official CEO is still underway.

Internal candidates from the technical side include Ian Buck (founded CUDA during his PhD at Stanford, joined in 2004, responsible for data center business) and Jonah Alben (joined in 1997, Senior Vice President of GPU Engineering). An executive stated that "Ian would rather die than succeed Jensen" and "no one would truly want that job." The analysis points out that both are outstanding, but neither may be able to exert Jensen Huang's command over supply chain management.