When Jensen Huang’s software company Nvidia invented the graphic processing unit, it fundamentally changed the world. Huang is set to receive the Gold House A1 honor in business and technology. The GPU was one step ahead of the CPU (computer processing unit) and being one step ahead is how Huang, Nvidia’s president and CEO, has been. Nvidia began life as a gaming company in 1993, but in the past three decades, the company has been behind countless innovative technological advancements. It dominates the GPU market,...
Nvidia
Jensen
Huang
Co-founder, President and CEO
Huang is at the forefront of the AI revolution, with his company’s financials (and stock price) soaring thanks to insatiable demand for Nvidia’s chips that power artificial-intelligence applications. When Huang co-founded Nvidia in 1993, the killer app was graphics processing chips for video games. Now AI, with its computationally intensive needs, has dramatically superseded that market. Huang has served since the company’s inception as president, CEO and a member of the board of directors. Born in Taiwan, he moved to the U.S. as a kid. He received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and a master’s degree in EE from Stanford. Prior to founding Nvidia, Huang worked for chip manufacturing firm LSI Logic and semiconductor company AMD.