Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has agreed to testify before Congress, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast said Thursday, Bloomberg and NBC News reported.
Huang resigned as CEO following reports of an affair with a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy, but agreed to testify on Wednesday after several senior lawmakers threatened to subpoena him.
Hwang has agreed to testify before Congress by Thanksgiving later this month.
This comes after House Republicans Mast, John Moolener and Rick Crawford sent a letter to Fann on Nov. 4, asking him to appear before the committee. Moolener is chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Mast is chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Crawford is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
“As some of you may already know, Jensen and I have been very at odds over export controls, but Nvidia is a very important company to the United States,” Mast told reporters. “I don’t want to see anything hurt at Nvidia, but he has some very serious questions to answer.”
Testimony will be held in private, but Mast said he expects the meeting to be videotaped and transcribed.
