NVIDIA Sinks 9% on Reports Board Is Preparing to Oust Jensen Huang; Intel Falls 4%, AMD Holds Steady David Moadel Thu, November 12, 2026 at 8:48 AM EST 6 min read NVDA -10.55% AMD +1.29% INTC -4.27% AVGO +1.82% Explore stocks on Coinbase Trading disclosure Trading disclosure The above button links to Coinbase. Yahoo Finance is not a broker-dealer or investment adviser and does not offer securities or cryptocurrencies for sale or facilitate trading. Coinbase pays us for certain activity generated through this link. Prices displayed are informational.
NVIDIA plunged 9% on reports its board is weighing Jensen Huang's ouster, while Intel slid 4% as the turmoil rattled the AI trade.
AMD and Broadcom edged higher as investors bet the chaos could steer business their way, with AMD up 0.3%.
With no chair, no COO and no succession plan, NVIDIA faces a leadership vacuum, though Jay Goldberg notes demand is contracted into next year.
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A reported boardroom move against Jensen Huang is rattling chip stocks and splitting the semiconductor group into winners and losers. NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock is at $158.78 in morning trading, down 9%. Pressure is building after reports that its board is preparing to remove Huang as CEO.
So far, NVIDIA's board hasn't confirmed any such plan, and the allegations surrounding Huang haven't been proven. On August 26, NVIDIA disclosed that it expected Q3 FY2027 revenue of $108 billion, plus or minus 2%, and the company's upcoming earnings report will test that outlook.
The Wall Street Journal reported on November 11 that NVIDIA's board is preparing to oust Huang and could meet soon to decide his fate. Reporting from The New York Times added that Huang allegedly had a relationship with Kimberly Powell, NVIDIA's vice president of health care. Congress is reportedly prepared to subpoena Huang as well.
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Those reports followed disclosures on November 8, when Huang acknowledged being unfaithful to his wife and NVIDIA opened an investigation into reports that he was targeted by a foreign intelligence effort involving a woman U.S. officials deemed a Chinese spy. At the time, NVIDIA's board stated it had "no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised." President Trump has praised Huang as an "amazing guy" and an "honorable man."
NVIDIA's board reportedly has no chair, the company has no chief operating officer, and there's no clear succession plan in place. Huang has about 60 direct reports. Governance experts have suggested chief financial officer Colette Kress or lead independent director Stephen Neal as possible interim CEOs.
D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria warned the situation could "hasten a transition the company is not prepared for." Seaport Research Partners analyst Jay Goldberg noted that NVIDIA is "sold out" and stated that "it's all contracted into next year, but it loses a lot of its luster."
Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) stock is at $59.95, down 4%. That's a smaller drop than NVIDIA's slide, but Intel is moving in the same direction as the turmoil weighs on chip stocks and the broader artificial intelligence (AI) trade. According to The Wall Street Journal, NVIDIA's leadership crisis is also dragging on U.S. stock futures.
Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) stock is at $554.65, up 0.3%. The modest gain leaves AMD on the opposite side of NVIDIA's selloff. Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) is inching higher too, and Bloomberg reported that NVIDIA's turmoil is lifting both AMD and Broadcom on expectations they could pick up business.
The NVIDIA selloff follows a strong November 11 session in which the S&P 500 rose 1.3% and the NASDAQ 100 climbed 2.3%. Hot inflation data has traders pricing in a December Federal Reserve rate hike as a near-certainty. Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee called the latest Consumer Price Index report "borderline disturbing."
NVIDIA sells merchant AI graphics processors alongside networking hardware and its CUDA software ecosystem, and its Vera Rubin platform is now in full production. That full-stack model ties hyperscalers, AI clouds and government buyers closely to NVIDIA's roadmap, which helps explain why questions about leadership carry so much weight.
AMD is a fabless challenger pairing EPYC server processors with Instinct accelerators and Helios rack-scale systems, making it the closest merchant alternative to NVIDIA, while Intel runs a different playbook as an integrated device manufacturer that designs Xeon and Core processors and operates its own foundry. Broadcom builds custom AI chips and networking silicon for a small group of hyperscalers, a model that sits outside NVIDIA's merchant approach. The chipmakers are only one layer of the AI expansion, and we rounded up seven power, cooling and networking suppliers riding the same wave in a free report on AI infrastructure stocks.
Whether its board formally acts on Huang's future, and whom it names as an interim leader, will show what NVIDIA does next. The bulls can point to sold-out supply and committed demand that don't depend on any single executive. For the bears, an abrupt transition at a company without a chair or a chief operating officer could disrupt execution on its product ramps.
Watch for an official statement from NVIDIA's board, which could also shape how AMD and Intel trade in the near term. Traders may prefer to keep their exposure smaller until NVIDIA's leadership question resolves.
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