Trump tells Nvidia CEO to fight and not resign

US President Donald Trump says former Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook should replace Jensen Huang as Nvidia's CEO after his sudden resignation following revelations about his extramarital affairs.

The US Department of Justice, meanwhile, states it is yet to reach a conclusion as to whether Alice Huang, the women the former Nvidia CEO had relations with, is a Chinese spy.

Jensen Huang resigned Thursday as president and CEO of Nvidia. According to The New York Times US President Donald Trump called Huang ahead of his resignation encouraging him to keep fighting and not resign.

Trump said he was amazed with the revelations concerning one of his closest allies

in Silicon Valley after Huang resignation, and who now faces an FBI probe and congressional hearings.

Huang reportedly had an affair with two women - Alice Huang, who US intelligence suspects of being a Chinese spy, and Kimberly Powell, Nvidia's vice president of health care.

Reuters reports a second Nvidia employee also had an affair with Huang.

US Attorney General Todd Blanche said Thursday that the Justice Department has not yet reached a conclusion on whether Alice Huang was a Chinese spy.

This as Singaporean authorities say they questioned Alice Huang and confiscated her passport last year as part of an investigation into Megaspeed. They concluded there wasn't enough evidence

that she committed a crime, but suspected she provided "inaccurate information" to downplay her role at Megaspeed.

Malaysia said Friday it was investigating whether any of the chips brought into Malaysia by Megaspeed or its local affiliate Speedmatrix had been reexported to other countries.

Meanwhile a growing number of US lawmakers are criticising Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over the administration's refusal to add dozens of Chinese companies to a key US trade blacklist.

On Jensen Huang's resignation, Nvidia said the company chief financial officer and executive vice president Colette Kress will step into the role of interim CEO.

The company board of directors also said Thursday that it has names its first-ever chairman, Harvey C. Jones.