Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is reportedly discussing a comeback as CEO days after he resigned over an affair with a suspected Chinese spy.

Huang quit as chief of the world’s most valuable company after it emerged he cheated on his wife with Alice Huang, accused of being a Chinese spy, and Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice healthcare president.

The billionaire has already discussed with confidants the possibility of returning, despite being such to an investigation by Nvidia’s board, the Financial Times reports

One Huang ally said they were putting together a ‘war room’ of influential supporters in Silicon Valley to lobby for his return.

There are reportedly plans to try to garner support from Donald Trump,who has defended Huang amid the cheating scandal.

These efforts have Huang’s backing, the source told the FT.

A public campaign to reinstate the former Nvidia boss has already collected the endorsement of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Epic Games chief executive Tim Sweeney.

They backed a public letter demanding its board ‘Bring Jensen Back’.

Why did Jensen Huang resign?

Huang’s future was thrown into doubt after Huang admitted that he had an affair with a woman. He married his wife, Lori, in 1985.

Huang initially shrugged off worries about the extramarital relationship, telling Bloomberg News it was strictly professional.

But US officials concluded that Alice Huang, an executive at Megaspeed, a company buying Nvidia-made chips, was a spy for Beijing.

China’s Ministry of State Security recruited Ms Huang to spy.

The US government spent more than a year surveilling Ms Huang when they discovered her interactions with the Nvidia CEO were romantic.

Megaspeed left her executive role at Megaspeed in August last year, the company said time.

Jus as Huang was reeling from reports of the affair, The New York Times then reported that he also had an extramarital relationship with Nvidia’s vice president of health care.

Kimberly Powell was caught on video being affectionate with Huang at a San Jose, California, hotel during a conference.

Nvidia employees are barred from entering ‘personal relationships’ as they could ‘create conflict’, the AI giant’s code of conduct says.

Huang is one of the most powerful figures in the AI world, having co-founded Nvidia more than three decades ago.

The company makes powerful AI chips that can perform complex tasks like facial and speech recognition and generate text for chatbots.

Seven in 10 chips are made by Nvidia, according to the research firm Omdia.

Donald Trump, who has backed Huang despite the furore, said the AI titan had done a ‘fantastic job’.

‘There is only one man to take his place – TIM COOK of Apple. A Legend replaces a Legend!’ the US President said on his social media network, Truth Social.

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