[Nvidia Board's Top Candidate Says "Rather Die Than Take Over as CEO"] BlockBeats reports on November 13th that SemiAnalysis, a semiconductor research firm, released a report on Jensen Huang's resignation, stating that while the board has appointed Colette Kress as interim CEO, they prefer a permanent CEO without a financial background. Therefore, the search for a permanent CEO is still ongoing. Internal technical candidates include Ian Buck (who founded CUDA during his Stanford PhD studies and joined in 2004, responsible for the data center business) and Jonah Alben (who joined in 1997 and is Senior Vice President of GPU Engineering). An executive stated, "Ian would rather die than succeed Jensen," and "Nobody really wants that job." The analysis points out that both are excellent, but neither may be able to replicate Huang's supply chain management prowess.