Elon Musk has offered to hire Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang if he is sacked by the chip company he helped build. Mr Musk is a tech mogul who owns Tesla, SpaceX, and the social media giant X (formerly Twitter), and is worth over $890 billion.

X user @zerohedge tweeted, “Elon, please hire Jensen.”

Mr Musk replied, saying, “That would be an honour.”

Mr Huang on Sunday admitted to the affair with Alice Huang, the woman that U.S. intelligence officials determined to be a spy, which caused Nvidia shares to slide about eight per cent.

Nvidia and Mr Huang face a shareholder lawsuit over his infidelity.

The exposure of Mr Huang’s extra-marital affair with Alice Huang, a top executive at MegaSpeed, headquartered in Qatar, caused Nvidia to lose over $230 million in valuation.

But Ms Huang’s MegaSpeed has bought over $4 billion worth of AI chips from Nvidia.

The FBI is investigating whether Ms Huang bypassed the ban and exploited her romantic relationship with the Nvidia chief to facilitate the transfer of the chips to China.

Mr Huang admitted to the affair in a letter to company staff on Sunday.  He also apologised to his wife and children.

“I was unfaithful to my wife,” the Nvidia boss said. “My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry.”

The embattled Nvidia CEO has been married to Lori for about 40 years.

President Donald Trump, Mr Huang’s friend, also said the FBI was investigating the affair to determine whether it violated a U.S. ban on selling advanced AI chips to China.

Mr Huang also reportedly dated another company executive, Kimberly Powell.

Ms Powell is Nvidia’s healthcare vice-president, and the duo were captured on camera being cosy at a California hotel, where a company event was held, according to a report by The New York Times.