For a guy staring down the barrel of a very big gun, Nvidia Chief Jen-Hsun Huang seems awfully confident. "Nvidia has transcended being the most important 3-D graphics company in the world," he intones. "We are now on our way to becoming one of the most important electronics companies in the world." Never mind that Nvidia is now enmeshed in two tangles with the Securities & Exchange Commission. From August to November the SEC filed insider-trading charges against 12 of its employees, charging they bought company stock and options after learning Nvidia had won a contract for Microsoft's new Xbox game console. Two have settled civil charges, and one was found liable. Three have pleaded guilty to criminal charges. In January the SEC raised questions about Nvidia's costs and reserves during certain quarters; that inquiry is pending.
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