While Jensen can’t be faulted for making these moves because he was keeping the best interests of the company in mind, it’s a stab in the back for gamers and hardware owners who are unable to locate any mouth-watering deals for GPUs or memory because of the perceived shortage.
Uh, yes the fuck he can be faulted for making these moves, because the entire situation was CLEARLY a deeply unsustainable, unethical, and financially risky strategy that effectively amounts to market manipulation and supply-side collusion, which is now demonstrably coming apart at the seams. And according to this article, Huang effectively bullied the then-CFO, who is now the interim CEO, in the interest of getting her to reduce or drop her objections to said shitty business strategy. I guess the silver lining is that he didn’t have an affair with her…?
Honestly, this whole saga is becoming a lurid and graphic demonstration of how caustic tech leadership these days in the US has turned into a cult of personality these days.
It’s a clear indictment of business and our society that ethics and morality are never factored in and can be disregarded as long as it’s in pursuit of money.
Shameful.
Ed Zitron is about to go Super Saiyan.
