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Jensen Huang
Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang (Chinese: 黃仁勳; pinyin: Huáng Rénxūn; born February 17, 1963) is a Taiwanese-American businessman, electrical engineer, and philanthropist who is the co-founder, president, and CEO of <a href="#">Nvidia</a>, the world’s largest semiconductor company.
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| <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/placeholder.jpg" alt="Huang in 2023" style="width:100%"> Huang in 2023 |
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| Born | February 17, 1963 Taipei, Taiwan |
| Citizenship | United States Taiwan |
| Education | Oregon State University (BS) Stanford University (MS) |
| Occupation | Businessman Electrical engineer Philanthropist |
| Known for | Co-founding Nvidia |
| Title | President and CEO of Nvidia (1993–present) |
| Spouse | Lori Huang (m. 1985) |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Lisa Su (cousin) |
| Awards |
IEEE Founders Medal (2020) |
Early life and education
Jensen Huang was born in Taipei, Taiwan, on February 17, 1963. He spent his early childhood in Thailand before moving to the United States. His family initially settled in Kentucky before relocating to Oregon. Huang graduated from Aloha High School at age 16 and later earned a BS in electrical engineering from Oregon State University in 1984 and an MS in the same field from Stanford University in 1992.
Career
Early career
Upon graduation, Huang worked at AMD and later LSI Logic, where he met future Nvidia co-founders Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem. The three developed the GX graphics engine, which became widely successful.
Nvidia
In 1993, Huang co-founded Nvidia from a booth at Denny’s restaurant in San Jose. As CEO, he guided the company through the development of its first chips, financial instability, and eventually its transformation into a global leader in GPU and AI technologies. Under his leadership, Nvidia reached a market cap of $4 trillion in 2025.
Philanthropy
Huang has donated millions to educational institutions, including Stanford University, Oregon State University, and the Oneida Baptist Institute. He is also known for contributions following natural disasters in China and ongoing support for education and research in computing.
Awards and honors
- 2020: IEEE Founders Medal
- 2024: Edison Award
- 2024: VinFuture Prize
- 2025: Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Personal life
Huang is married to Lori Huang and they have two children, Spencer and Madison. The family resides in California and maintains ties to Taiwan. He is related to Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, and is close with prominent tech leaders such as Morris Chang.
Huang's law
Huang's law is an empirical observation that the performance of graphics processing units (GPUs) is improving at a rate faster than traditional central processing units (CPUs), surpassing even Moore’s law in performance growth for certain applications.
History
The law was proposed by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in 2018, who noted that Nvidia’s GPU performance had increased 25-fold over five years, outpacing Moore’s law. He attributed this to synergistic advances in software, hardware, and AI.
Reception
While industry leaders praised the observation, some critics consider Huang’s law premature or misattributed. GPU performance improvements remain significant but not universally exponential across all metrics or workloads.
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