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黄仁勋辞职以后，英伟达谁来管
After Jensen Huang's Resignation, Who Runs Nvidia?
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On 12 November 2026 Nvidia announced that Jensen Huang, its founder and chief executive, had resigned, and this episode explains how the finance chief, now interim chief executive, keeps it going. HSK 3 Chinese listening practice.
This is an HSK 3 Chinese listening episode that runs about 3 minutes. The full Mandarin script is shown with tap-for-pinyin and a line-by-line English translation, so you can listen and read at once — comprehensible input in the sense of Stephen Krashen's i+1 theory. It teaches 12 key vocabulary words such as 老板、消息、设计 and walks through 7 grammar patterns, each explained in English with examples. The same news story is retold at 4 difficulty levels — use the level selector above to find the version that is challenging but still understandable for you.
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Yue
英伟达这次换老板，是第一次吧。Xinghe
对，三十三年来第一次。Yue
嗯。Xinghe
他不再做老板，也离开了董事会，当天就走。Yue
董事会，就是公司上面，看着老板的那些人。Xinghe
对，差不多。Yue
走得这么急，为什么？Xinghe
公司的消息只说他辞职。Yue
嗯。Xinghe
管钱的那位。Yue
哦，十几年了。Xinghe
对。Yue
临时，就是先顶着。Xinghe
对。Yue
嗯。Xinghe
新的人，新的人董事会在找。Yue
哦。Xinghe
还有一件事。Yue
以前没有？Xinghe
以前没有。Yue
嗯，到今天才有。Xinghe
是。Yue
完全有信心。Xinghe
一般都会说。Yue
嗯。Xinghe
不是一般的大。Yue
有多大？Xinghe
今天的人工智能，大多，大多用的是英伟达设计的芯片。Yue
哦。Xinghe
而且从一九九三年他开公司，到现在，只有他一个首席执行官。Yue
嗯，三十三年，一直，一直是一个人在前面。Xinghe
对。Yue
我想到英伟达，就想到他。Xinghe
很多人都是。Yue
我，我看法不一样。Xinghe
嗯。Yue
我觉得最难的，是两份工作。Xinghe
对，别人也在做芯片。Yue
谁？Xinghe
有AMD。Yue
嗯。Xinghe
还有谷歌、亚马逊，现在也自己设计人工智能芯片。Yue
你看。Xinghe
是，这个，这个我同意。Yue
那她要做多久？Xinghe
做到，做到新的首席执行官来。Yue
新的会是谁，Xinghe
董事会会从里面和外面一起找。Yue
嗯。Xinghe
在那之前，这家三十三年只有一个老板的公司，就由一个管了十几年钱的人来带，她手上是两份工作。Yue
嗯。Xinghe
下一步，就看董事会找到谁。English transcript reference
This is the first time Nvidia has changed bosses, right?
Right, the first time in 33 years.
On November 12, the company put out news that Jensen Huang had resigned,
Mm.
He is no longer the boss, he also left the board, and he left that same day.
The board means the people above the company who watch over the boss.
Right, more or less.
Why did he leave in such a hurry?
The company's news only said he resigned.
It is reported that a few days before he resigned, some reports about his private life caused controversy.
Mm.
So with him gone, who is running the company now?
The one in charge of the money.
She has been the person in charge of the money at Nvidia since 2013,
Oh, more than ten years.
Right.
Now she is the interim chief executive.
Interim means she fills in for now.
Right.
Until the new chief executive comes, she fills in.
She isn't putting down the money job either, one person, one person doing two.
Mm.
A new person, a new person is what the board is looking for.
Inside the company, outside, they're looking at both.
Oh.
There's one more thing.
This time the board chose a board chair,
There wasn't one before?
There wasn't one before.
In the company's 33 years, this is the first board chair.
Mm, only now, today.
Yes.
This board chair said the board has "full confidence" in her and the management team.
Full confidence.
Companies usually say this kind of thing when they change people.
They usually do.
But this time, what she has to manage,
Mm.
is no ordinary size.
How big?
Most AI today, most of it, uses chips designed by Nvidia.
The chips are made by TSMC.
Nvidia itself is also one of the most valuable companies in the world.
Oh.
And from when he started the company in 1993 until now, he has been its only chief executive.
Mm, 33 years, always, always one person out in front.
Right.
When I think of Nvidia, I think of him.
A lot of people do.
So I think the hardest thing for her, the hardest thing, is showing everyone that this company can still move forward without him.
I, I see it differently.
Mm.
I think the hardest part is the two jobs.
Handling the money and running the whole company, with others chasing from behind,
Right, others make chips too.
Who?
There's AMD.
Mm.
And Google and Amazon now design their own AI chips too.
You see.
So much going on outside, and one person fewer inside.
Yes, that, that I agree with.
So how long will she do it?
Until, until the new chief executive comes.
Who the new one will be,
The board will look both inside and outside.
Mm.
Until then, this company that had only one boss for 33 years will be led by someone who has handled the money for more than ten years, with two jobs in her hands.
Mm.
Next, it's about who the board finds.
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇HSK 3. The everyday word for the person in charge. The script uses it next to the formal 首席执行官.
HSK 3. A piece of news. 发消息 means to put out news; 公司的消息 here is the company's announcement.
HSK 3. To plan how something is made. 英伟达设计的芯片 means chips Nvidia designs.
HSK 2. Trust that someone can do the job. The usual frame is 对 + someone + 有信心.
HSK 3. 管理团队 means the management team.
HSK 2. 离开了董事会 means left the board.
Beyond the HSK 1 to 5 lists. The formal title. 首席 means chief, 执行 means to carry out, 官 means officer. In speech people often just say 老板.
Beyond the HSK 1 to 5 lists. The script explains it as the people above the company who watch over the boss. 会 here means a group or council.
HSK 5. To quit a job by your own decision. 辞 means to take leave, 职 means post.
HSK 4. Only for now, until a permanent choice is made: 临时的首席执行官.
Beyond the HSK 1 to 5 lists. A computer chip. Here it goes with 设计 and 做: Nvidia designs them, TSMC makes them.
Beyond the HSK 1 to 5 lists. Used before a noun with no 的: 人工智能芯片, AI chips.
* beyond level超纲词
What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法Time span + 来 + 第一次
Time span + 来 means over that whole period up to now. With 第一次 it says this is the first time in all those years.
对，三十三年来第一次。
不再 + Verb
Says that something that used to happen no longer does.
他不再做老板，也离开了董事会，当天就走。
从 + Time + 起
Says when something started. Often followed by 就 to stress how early it began.
她从二零一三年起，就是英伟达管钱的人
Clause + 之前
Before something happens. The 之前 part comes first and the main clause follows.
新的首席执行官来之前，她先顶着。
对 + Somebody + 有信心
To have confidence in someone. Adverbs such as 完全 or 很 go before 有.
这位董事长说，董事会对她和管理团队“完全有信心”。
不是一般的 + Adjective
Literally not the ordinary kind of; a spoken way to say very or unusually.
不是一般的大。
由 + Somebody + 来 + Verb
Names who is responsible for doing something. A little more formal than a plain subject.
就由一个管了十几年钱的人来带
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