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Jensen Huang

The native form of thispersonal nameisHuang Jen-hsun.This article usesWestern name orderwhen mentioning individuals.
In thisTaiwanese name,thesurnameisHuang.

Jen-Hsun"Jensen"Huang[a](Chinese:Hoàng nhân huân;pinyin:Huáng Rénxūn;Pe̍h-ōe-jī:N̂g Jîn-hun;born February 17, 1963) is a Taiwanese-born Americanbillionairebusinessman,electrical engineer,and philanthropist who is the founder, president and chief executive officer (CEO) ofNvidia.[3]

Jensen Huang
Hoàng nhân huân
Huang in 2023
Born
Huang Jen-hsun

(1963-02-17)February 17, 1963(age 61)
Tainan,Taiwan
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Businessman
  • electrical engineer
  • philanthropist
Known forCo-foundingNvidia
TitlePresident and CEO of Nvidia
SpouseLori Huang
Children2[1]
RelativesLisa Su(cousin)
Chinese name
Traditional ChineseHoàng nhân huân
Simplified ChineseHoàng nhân huân
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHuáng Rénxūn
Bopomofoㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄖㄣˊㄒㄩㄣ
Gwoyeu RomatzyhHwang Renshiun
Wade–GilesHuang2Jen2-hsün1
IPA[xwǎŋ ɻə̌n.ɕýn]
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingWong4 Jan4-fan1
Southern Min
HokkienPOJN̂g Jîn-hun
Tâi-lôN̂g Jîn-hun
Websitenvidia

The son ofTaiwaneseimmigrants, Huang moved fromTaiwanto the United States in his childhood. After receiving a master's degree in electrical engineering fromStanford University,he co-founded Nvidia in 1993 at the age of 30. In June 2024, Nvidia became the largest company in the world bymarket capitalization.[4]As of November 2024,Forbesestimated Huang's net worth at $130 billion, making him the 9th richest person in the world.[5]

Early life and education

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Huang was born inTainan,Taiwan, on February 17, 1963.[6]His family moved toThailandwhen he was five years old. When he was nine, he and his older brother were sent to the United States to live with an uncle inTacoma, Washington.When he was ten, he lived in the boys' dormitory with his brother atOneida Baptist Institutewhile attending a separate public school, Oneida Elementary school, inOneida, Kentucky—his uncle had mistaken what was actually a religious reform academy for a prestigious boarding school.[7]Huang's roommate at Oneida was illiterate and in exchange for being taught how to read, he taught Huang how tobench press.[7]

Several years later, their parents also moved to the United States and settled inOregonand the brothers moved back to live with them.[7]Huang skipped two years and graduated at sixteen fromAloha High SchoolinAloha, Oregon.[8][7]While growing up in Oregon in the 1980s,[7]Huang got his first job at a localDenny'srestaurant, where he worked as abusboyand waiter.[9]

Huang graduated fromOregon State Universityin 1984 with aBachelor of Scienceinelectrical engineering.He would later receive aMaster of Sciencein electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1992.[10][11]

Career

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Huang meeting withNarendra Modiin 2023

After graduating from university, Huang served as the director of CoreWare atLSI Logicand asmicroprocessordesigner atAdvanced Micro Devices(AMD).[3]In 1993, at 30 years old, he went on to start his own business, where he co-foundedNvidiawithChris MalachowskyandCurtis Priemand became its CEO and president.[7][12]The three men founded the company in a meeting at aDenny'sroadside diner inEast San Jose.[7][13][14]He personally signed Nvidia's original Articles of Incorporation on April 5, 1993.[2]

As of 2024, Huang has been Nvidia's chief executive for over three decades, a tenure described byThe Wall Street Journalas "almost unheard of in fast-movingSilicon Valley".[15]He owns 3.6% of Nvidia's stock, which went public in 1999.[5]He earnedUS$24.6 millionas CEO in 2007, ranking him as the 61st highest paid U.S. CEO byForbes.[5]

According to Huang, the three co-founders in 1993 had "no idea how" to start a company,[14]"building Nvidia turned out to have been a million times harder" than they expected, and they probably would not have done it if they had realized up front "the pain and suffering [involved]... the challenges [they were] going to endure, the embarrassment and the shame, and the list of all the things that [would] go wrong."[16]For its first graphics accelerator chips, Nvidia focused on renderingquadrilateralprimitives(forward texture mapping) instead of the triangle primitives preferred by its competitors,[7]and barely survived long enough to successfully pivot to triangles only becauseSegaagreed to keep Nvidia alive with a $5 million investment.[17]By the time theRIVA 128was released in August 1997 and saved the company, Nvidia was down to one month of payroll.[7]This resulted in the "unofficial company motto": "Our company is thirty days from going out of business."[7]Huang regularly began presentations to Nvidia staff with those words for many years.[7]However, Huang regards the "pain and suffering" of Nvidia's early years as essential to the company's success in later years, because it forced him to become a better leader.[18]

Huang does not keep a fixed office; he roams Nvidia's headquarters and settles temporarily in conference rooms as needed.[19]He prefers to maintain a relatively flat management structure, with around 60 direct reports as of November 2024,[20]on the ground that people reporting directly to him "should be at the top of their game" and "require the least amount of pampering".[21]He does not wear a watch, because as he likes to say, "now is the most important time".[15]

Historically, Huang and Nvidia were well-known only among thegamersandcomputer graphicsexperts who were the original intended markets for Nvidia'sgraphics processing unit(GPU) products. In 2017, aFortuneprofile article acknowledged: "If you haven’t heard of Nvidia, you can be forgiven."[19]During theAI boom,Huang's net worth rose rapidly along with the value of Nvidia's stock, fromUS$3 billionin 2019 toUS$90 billionin May 2024.[22]During this same timeframe, Huang became more widely known. In March 2024,Mark Zuckerbergwrote onInstagramwith a picture of himself and Huang wearing each other's signature jacket: "He's likeTaylor Swift,but for tech ".[23]

In June 2024, Nvidia's market capitalization reachedUS$3 trillionfor the first time and Huang's net worth grew toUS$100 billion.[24]By then, the news media was using the term "Jensanity" to refer to Huang's celebrity status in Taiwan,[24]and it was compared to the"Linsanity"phenomenon of 2012.[25]Huang was the center of attention atComputex2024 in Taipei, even though he was not on the official speaking program.[24]Large crowds of fans and paparazzi followed Huang and his family members around every time they appeared in public during their 2024 visit to Taiwan.[24][25]

Philanthropy

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In 2008, Nvidia contributed funds to establish a classroom at theBeijing Haidian Foreign Language Shi Yan Schoolto cater to 101 elementary and middle school students from regions affected by the2008 Wenchuan earthquakein China. As a gesture of appreciation for the donation, the students ceremoniously bestowed ared scarfupon Huang, symbolizing their gratitude towards him. In return, Huang gifted kaleidoscopes to the students as a gesture of appreciation during the donation ceremony.[26]In addition, Huang also provided a donation ofUS$30 millionto his former university, Stanford University, in order to establish the Jen-Hsun Huang School of Engineering Center.[27]The building is the second of four that make up Stanford's Science and Engineering Quad.[28]

In 2019, Huang donated $2 million to his former school,Oneida Baptist Institute,for the construction of Huang Hall, a modern facility that serves as a dormitory and classroom building for female students.[29]

In 2022, Huang giftedUS$50 millionto his alma mater,Oregon State University,as part of a largerUS$200 millionphilanthropic contribution to establish a cutting-edge supercomputing institute on the university campus.[30]

Awards

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Jensen Huang at SC18
Jensen Huang inTaipei

Personal life

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While at Oregon State University, Huang met his future wife, Lori Mills, who was his engineering lab partner at the time.[7]They have two children, Spencer Huang (Chinese:Hoàng thắng bân;pinyin:Huáng Shèngbīn) and Madison Huang (Chinese:Hoàng mẫn san;pinyin:Huáng Mǐnshān).[19]Spencer launched a bar in Taipei in 2015 that was honored as one of the top 50 bars in Asia byForbes.The bar closed in May 2021, and he is currently a product manager at Nvidia. Madison previously worked in the hotel industry and is currently director of product marketing at Nvidia.[1]

The Huang family lived in ordinary middle-classstarter homesinSan Josebefore Nvidia went public in 1999.[53]In 2003, they moved to a larger house inLos Altos Hills, Californiaand in 2004 they acquired a second home inWailea, Hawaii.[53]In 2017, alimited liability companyreportedly linked to the Huangs acquired a mansion in San Francisco for $38 million.[53]

Huang andAMDChair and CEOLisa Suare relatives.[54]Huang's mother is the youngest sister of Su's maternal grandfather, making them first cousins, once removed.[55][56]

Huang andCharles Liang,co-founder ofSupermicro,are longtime friends. Both companies were established in 1993 and have collaborated on products, with the latter utilizing Nvidia AI chips in its servers.[57]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^Huang consistently capitalizes the second syllable of his given name in legal documents. For example, on April 5, 1993, he signed Nvidia's original articles of incorporation as Jen-Hsun Huang.[2]

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