Elon Musk said chipmaker NVIDIA would lose "critical" deals without its now-ousted CEO, Jensen Huang, in a post on X/Twitter on Saturday.
Musk said that while Huang drove the supply chain "brilliantly" at Nvidia, many such deals were "a handshake with Jensen, not a written contract."
An internal dispute reportedly swept through chip giant NVIDIA following the resignation of Huang, according to leaked posts from the company's internal messaging system.
According to the leaked internal post, employees of Nvidia called on the board of directors to reconsider its position, with the majority of comments calling for the immediate reinstatement of the CEO under the slogan "Bring Back the Boss."
Trump push for Huang to stay, even amid scandal - report
Earlier on Saturday, The New York Times reported that US President Donald Trump called Huang on Tuesday and urged him to continue fighting to keep his position, just two days before Huang was forced to step down.
According to the report, Trump continued defending and supporting Huang until the last moment, even though US intelligence agencies had concluded that a woman with whom he had a romantic relationship had been recruited by Chinese intelligence.
Huang, who co-founded Nvidia and transformed it into the world's leading manufacturer of advanced artificial intelligence chips, has emerged in recent years as one of Trump's most prominent allies in Silicon Valley and an influential adviser on technology and artificial intelligence.