US chip giant Nvidia has approached Rene Haas, chief executive of British chip designer Arm, about potentially succeeding Jensen Huang following his resignation as chief executive, British media reported.
The Financial Times reported this on Friday (13 November), citing people familiar with the matter.
Haas, who has led Arm since 2022, spent about seven years at Nvidia more than a decade ago. He remains close to Huang and some members of Nvidia’s board.
Huang resigned on Thursday (12 November) over an extramarital affair and an espionage controversy, but the scandal continues to unfold as Nvidia’s board seeks to stabilise the situation.
People familiar with the matter said Haas was one of the candidates to succeed Huang, but it remained unclear whether he would be offered the chief executive role or whether he would accept it.
Nvidia’s board said in a statement that the company was selecting an executive search firm to help find a chief executive and had not formally approached any candidates.
On prediction platform Polymarket, Ian Buck, Nvidia’s vice-president of hyperscale and high-performance computing, is the favourite to succeed Huang. Chief financial officer Colette Kress ranks second, followed by Haas in third and Apple chief executive Tim Cook in fourth.
