Jensen Huang
17 February 1963 – present
Jensen Huang is a Taiwanese-American businessman and electrical engineer who co-founded the semiconductor company Nvidia in 1993 and has served as its president and chief executive officer since then. Under his leadership Nvidia popularised the graphics processing unit and later became a leading supplier of hardware for artificial-intelligence computing. He holds degrees in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and Stanford University.
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Life events
After a period in Thailand he was sent with his brother to relatives in the United States and enrolled at Oneida Baptist Institute in Kentucky.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe began his career designing microprocessors before moving into engineering and management roles at LSI Logic.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe two met as laboratory partners while studying engineering at Oregon State University.
He studied part-time at Stanford while working in the semiconductor industry.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe founded the company with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem and became its president and chief executive officer.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe company completed its initial public offering in January 1999 and released the GeForce 256 graphics processor later that year.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDemand for the company's processors for artificial-intelligence workloads drove a sharp rise in its valuation.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe company briefly overtook Microsoft and Apple by market capitalisation in June 2024.
Source: en.wikipedia.org