Huang’s potential departure would leave a leadership vacuum at the roughly $4tn chipmaker he co-founded, with Nvidia’s shares sliding about 8% in ​after-hours trading

Too big - and too well-connected - to sack?

Huang does not enjoy the supercharged voting rights that are par for the course elsewhere - his shareholding is a plain vanilla 3.6%. On the other hand, Nvidia’s board does not appear to have spent much time worrying about succession planning and “key person risk” or other standard concerns of corporate governance wonks outside the US.