What we know so far about Jensen Huang's affair with suspected Chinese spy

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Once lauded as the "Taylor Swift of tech", Huang is mired in scandal after an affair with a suspected Chinese spy.

Jensen Huang is one of the technology industry's most high-profile figures.

He rose to prominence as the business he leads - artificial intelligence (AI) chip giant Nvidia - became one of the world's most valuable companies.

As the face of the AI boom, Huang also became close to Donald Trump as the president pushed for the US to keep its dominance of the technology over China.

The 63-year-old who was once lauded as the "Taylor Swift of tech" and referred to as "Daddy Huang" in Taiwan is now mired in scandal after an affair with a suspected Chinese spy.

Born in Taiwan in 1963, Huang was nine years old when his family moved to the West Coast of the US.

He graduated as an electrical engineer from Oregon State University, and then with a master's degree in the same field from Stanford University.

He has an estimated fortune of $155bn, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

"Jensen Huang is a tech visionary of the likes of Steve Jobs," Stephen Witt, the author of Thinking Machine - a biography on Huang, tells the BBC, adding that he was responsible for creating AI hardware as we know it today.

Huang has a famously close relationship with Trump. At the recent AI summit at the White House, where 42 tech executives were present, the president was flanked by Elon Musk and Huang.

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