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Jensen Huang
Co-founding Nvidia and helping take graphics processors into artificial-intelligence computing.
Nvidia · GeForce 256
- Born
- 17 February 1963
- Birthplace
- Taipei, Taiwan
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Jensen Huang
A Taiwanese-born American engineer and executive whose company began with computer graphics. Nvidia’s processors and software later became important tools for scientific computing and machine learning.
Early life
Childhood moves
Lived in Taiwan and Thailand before moving to the United States.
Engineering education
Studied electrical engineering at Oregon State and earned a Stanford master’s degree.
Career
- 1980s–1990s
Chip industry
Worked at AMD and LSI Logic.
- 1993
Nvidia founded
Co-founded the company with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem.
- 1999
Graphics growth
Nvidia introduced the GeForce 256.
- 2006 onward
General-purpose computing
CUDA helped extend its processors beyond graphics.
Companies & projects
Nvidia
A company initially focused on graphics hardware.
GeForce 256
Integrated transform and lighting into a consumer graphics processor.
CUDA
A computing platform enabling developers to use GPUs for broader workloads.
Beyond work
Education support
Has supported university engineering and research programmes.
Family
Met his wife Lori while studying at Oregon State.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Nvidia executive biography ↗Photo: The White House. Public domain · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
