Nvidia approaches Arm CEO Haas as employees seek Huang’s return, reports say

Arm CEO Rene Haas makes a speech at COMPUTEX forum in Taipei in June 2024. | REUTERS

Reuters

Nov 14, 2026

Nvidia’s board has approached British chipmaker Arm Holdings CEO Rene Haas in its search for a potential successor to Jensen Huang, the Financial Times said on Friday, even as another report said some employees were pushing to bring back the former CEO.

Huang stepped down on Thursday after revelations of extramarital affairs, including one involving a suspected Chinese spy, plunging the chipmaker into crisis and sending shock waves across an AI industry he helped bankroll.

Haas’ name has been making the rounds among analysts since Huang’s exit. He spent seven formative years at Nvidia, rising to vice president and general manager of its computing products business, before joining Arm in 2013.

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