Jensen Huang
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Born | Tainan, Taiwan | February 17, 1963
Education | Oregon State University (BS) Stanford University (MS) |
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Title | Co-founder, president and CEO, Nvidia Corporation |
Spouse | Lori Huang |
Children | 2[1] |
Relatives | Lisa Su (cousin) |
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Jen-hsun "Jensen" Huang (Chinese: 黃仁勳; pinyin: Huáng Rénxūn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: N̂g Jîn-hun; born 17 February 1963[2]) is an Taiwanese American businessman, electrical engineer, and the co-founder, president and CEO of Nvidia.[3] He co-founded Nvidia in 1993 at age 30 and in June 2024, it became the 2nd largest company in the world by market capitalization.[4] As of June 2024, Forbes estimated Huang's net worth at $114 billion, making him the 12th richest person in the world, behind Mukesh Ambani.[5]
Early life and education
Huang was born in Tainan, Taiwan, on February 17, 1963. His family moved to Thailand when he was five years old. When he was nine, he and his brother were sent to the United States to live with an uncle in Tacoma, Washington. When he was ten, he lived in the boys' dormitory with his brother at Oneida Baptist Institute while attending Oneida Elementary school in Oneida, Kentucky—his uncle had mistaken what was actually a religious reform academy for a prestigious boarding school.[6] Several years later, their parents also moved to the United States and settled in Oregon,[6] where Huang graduated from Aloha High School in Aloha, Oregon.[7] He skipped two years and graduated at sixteen.[6] While growing up in Oregon in the 1980s,[6] Huang got his first job at a local Denny's restaurant, where he worked as a busboy and waiter.[8]
Huang received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University in 1984, and his master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1992.[9][10]
Career
After college, Huang was the director of CoreWare at LSI Logic and a microprocessor designer at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).[3] In 1993, at 30 years old, he co-founded Nvidia with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem and became its CEO and president.[6][11] The three men founded the company in a meeting at a Denny's roadside diner in East San Jose.[6][12]
As of 2024, Huang has been Nvidia's chief executive for over three decades, a tenure described by The Wall Street Journal as "almost unheard of in fast-moving Silicon Valley".[13] He owns 3.6% of Nvidia's stock, which went public in 1999.[5] He earned US$24.6 million as CEO in 2007, ranking him as the 61st highest paid U.S. CEO by Forbes.[5] His net worth went up from 2019 to 2024 along with the value of Nvidia's stock, from US$3 billion in 2019 to US$90 billion in May 2024.[14]
In June 2024, Nvidia's market capitalization reached US$3 trillion for the first time and Huang's net worth grew to US$100 billion.[15] By then, the news media was using the term "Jensanity" to refer to Huang's celebrity status in Taiwan,[15] and it was compared to the "Linsanity" phenomenon of 2012.[16] Huang was the center of attention at Computex 2024 in Taipei, even though he was not on the official speaking program.[15] Large crowds of fans and paparazzi followed Huang and his family members around every time they appeared in public during their 2024 visit.[15][16]
Philanthropy
In 2008, Nvidia donated funds to start a classroom in Beijing Haidian Foreign Language Shi Yan School to accommodate 101 primary and secondary students from areas affected by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in China. In honor of the donation, the students tied a red scarf on Huang to express gratitude to him during the donation ceremony and Huang presented kaleidoscopes to the students as gifts.[17]
In 2022, Huang donated US$50 million to his alma mater, Oregon State University, as a portion of a US$200 million donation towards the creation of a supercomputing institute on campus.[18]
Huang gave his other alma mater, Stanford University, US$30 million to build the Jen-Hsun Huang School of Engineering Center.[19] The building is the second of four that make up Stanford's Science and Engineering Quad.[20] Huang gave his alma mater Oneida Baptist Institute US$2 million to build Huang Hall, a new girls' dormitory and classroom building.[21]
Awards
- 1999: Named Entrepreneur of the Year in High Technology by Ernst & Young[22]
- 2002: Received the Daniel J. Epstein Engineering Management Award from the University of Southern California[23]
- 2004: Received the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award from the Fabless Semiconductor Association, which recognizes a leader who has made exceptional contributions to driving the development, innovation, growth, and long-term opportunities of the fabless semiconductor industry[24]
- 2005: Named Alumni Fellow by Oregon State University[25]
- 2007: Received the Silicon Valley Education Foundation's Pioneer Business Leader Award for his work in both the corporate and philanthropic worlds[26]
- June 2009: Received an honorary doctorate from Oregon State University[27]
- 2018: Listed in the inaugural Edge 50, naming the world's top 50 influencers in edge computing[28]
- October 2019: Named best-performing CEO in the world by the Harvard Business Review[29]
- November 2020: Named "Supplier CEO of the year" by Automotive News Europe Eurostars[30]
- November 2020: Received honorary doctorate from National Taiwan University[31][32]
- August 2021: Received the Robert N. Noyce Award from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), the industry’s highest honor[33]
- 2021 and 2024: Was included in the Time 100, Time's annual list of the world's 100 most influential people[34][35]
- February 2024: Elected to the National Academy of Engineering "for high-powered graphics processing units, fueling the artificial intelligence revolution"[36]
- May 2024: recognized as A1 honoree by Gold House[37]
Personal life
While at Oregon State University, Huang met his future wife, Lori Mills, who was his engineering lab partner at the time.[6] They have two children, Spencer Huang (Chinese: 黃勝斌; pinyin: Huáng Shèngbīn) and Madison Huang (Chinese: 黃敏珊; pinyin: Huáng Mǐnshān).[38] Spencer launched a bar in Taipei in 2015 that was honored as one of the top 50 bars in Asia by Forbes. 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-class starter homes in San Jose before Nvidia went public in 1999.[39] In 2003, they moved to a larger house in Los Altos Hills, California and in 2004 they acquired a second home in Wailea, Hawaii.[39] In 2017, a limited liability company reportedly linked to the Huangs acquired a mansion in San Francisco for $38 million.[39]
Huang and AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su are relatives.[40] Huang's mother is the youngest sister of Su's maternal grandfather, making them first cousins, once removed.[41][42]
See also
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External links
- "An Interview with Jen Hsun Huang". Wired, July 2002. Volume 10, number 7.
- Nvidia Corporate Biography
- Jen-Hsun Huang (2015). "GPU Technology Conference 2015 - Leaps in Visual Computing". Retrieved March 26, 2015.
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