Jensen Huang

Biography

Huang co-founded NVIDIA in 1993 after working at AMD and LSI Logic. The company's GPUs defined PC gaming, and its 2006 CUDA platform quietly turned those chips into general-purpose processors — the bet that made NVIDIA indispensable when deep learning exploded. In 2023 NVIDIA passed a $1 trillion valuation as AI demand soared, and Huang, in his signature leather jacket, became the public face of the AI hardware boom.

Taiwanese-born American engineer who co-founded NVIDIA in 1993 and has led it ever since, from gaming graphics to the centre of artificial intelligence.

Known for

Co-founding and leading NVIDIA into the engine of the AI era.

Notable works & defining projects

• NVIDIA GeForce
• CUDA
• NVIDIA AI accelerators (H100 and Blackwell)

Notable achievements

• Co-founded NVIDIA (1993) and has been its CEO ever since — one of tech's longest tenures
• Launched CUDA in 2006, the platform that carried GPUs into AI computing
• Led NVIDIA past a $1 trillion market value in 2023 on AI demand

Timeline

1. 1993Co-founded NVIDIA
2. 1999Launched the GeForce 256, billed as the world's first GPU
3. 2023NVIDIA passed a $1 trillion valuation in the AI boom

Did you know?

• NVIDIA's founding meeting with his two co-founders took place at a Denny's restaurant — where Huang had worked as a dishwasher as a teenager
• He has worn a black leather jacket at virtually every public appearance for decades