The claim arose after a sudden leadership change at Nvidia. In a November 12, 2026 announcement, Nvidia said Jensen Huang had resigned as president, chief executive and board member effective immediately, that chief financial officer Colette Kress would serve as interim CEO, and that Harvey C. Jones had become the board's first chair. CNN's report on the same announcement described Huang's resignation after 33 years and said Kress would also remain in her finance role while the board searched for a permanent successor.
The X post being checked claimed that hundreds of employees had signed an internal letter demanding Huang's reinstatement and the board's resignation. The image attached to the post shows a letter addressed to Nvidia's board that says the process through which Huang was terminated had jeopardized the company, calls for all current board members to resign, for new independent directors to be appointed and for Huang to be reinstated, and warns that signers may leave to join the SpaceX Terafab initiative. The visible list of names begins with a small number of names and does not by itself show hundreds of signatures.
TokenPost reported on November 13, 2026 that an image circulating on X purported to show such a petition and summarized the same demands, including a threat to join Terafab if they were not met. Critically, TokenPost said the circulating image's authenticity has not been confirmed. That means the report documents the existence of the circulating image and its contents, but it does not independently verify who wrote it, who signed it, or how many employees signed it.
WIRED, also reporting on November 13, described real internal expressions of support for Huang, but through a different mechanism from the one claimed in the post. It said an internal suggestion-box post submitted before Huang's resignation had drawn more than 1,600 comments, the majority in support of reinstalling him, and that one employee had sent a companywide email demanding transparency into his exit. WIRED also noted about two dozen employees posting on LinkedIn in support of Huang. Those reports show employee sentiment, but they do not confirm that hundreds signed the letter shown in the X post or that the signers demanded the board resign in that specific document.
No independent confirmation of the signer count, the letter's origin, or Nvidia's response to this specific petition was found in the material reviewed, and WIRED said Nvidia and Jones did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the employee calls for Huang's return. Because the key evidence is an image of undetermined authenticity and the stronger reporting describes separate acts of employee support, the specific claim about hundreds of signatures on an internal letter remains unverified.
