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Jensen Huang

The latest news on Jensen Huang, co-founder, president and CEO of NVIDIA, including American business news and updates.

Born

17 Feb 1963

Industry

Technology, Business

Job Title

Founder, president and CEO of Nvidia

The Trump administration plans AI chip export controls to Malaysia and Thailand amid China smuggling concerns. Photo: Shutterstock

US-Asean relations

Worried about China, US takes aim at Malaysia, Thailand in new AI chip crackdown

The Trump administration is targeting the two Southeast Asian nations to block a suspected back door into China for advanced Nvidia chips.

7 Jul 2025 - 6:00PMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

Meta’s AI lab is stacked with Chinese talent, drawing attention back home

4 Jul 2025 - 7:00AM

China Future Tech briefing

AI | Artificial intelligence oversight divides China, US policymakers

7 Jul 2025 - 9:05AM

Artificial intelligence

Meta bolsters AI team with top OpenAI talent from China

The recruitment highlights the rising global recognition of Chinese talent in AI development.

30 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, in September. Photo: Reuters

World Economic Forum

Will China lead the next wave of AI, robotics evolution? Unitree CEO thinks so

At ‘Summer Davos’ panel, the head of the robotics start-up and others credit Beijing’s talent pool, infrastructure for rapid tech advances.

26 Jun 2025 - 4:08PMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

Nvidia climbs to record high to become world’s largest stock again

With Wednesday’s gain, Nvidia overtakes Microsoft as the world’s largest stock.

26 Jun 2025 - 12:46PM

US-China tech war

How Huawei’s silicon strategy defies US sanctions, advances China’s AI ambitions

Huawei is expected to ship about 700,000 Ascend AI processors in 2025, according to Mizuho estimates.

23 Jun 2025 - 11:57AM

Semiconductors

How Huawei’s AI chips outperform Nvidia’s in running DeepSeek’s R1 model

Performance of Huawei’s AI data centre architecture, CloudMatrix 384, illustrates the firm’s progress in overcoming US tech control measures.

19 Jun 2025 - 7:00PM

Rare earths

My Take | China attains leverage in trade war on the back of its trump card: rare earths

Rare earths are vital components used in various modern technologies, including smartphones, EV batteries and precision-guided missiles.

17 Jun 2025 - 10:17AMvideocam

US-China tech war

Huawei’s AI chip output limited to 200,000 in 2025, US commerce official says

That number falls short of Nvidia’s over 1 million China-specific H20 chips produced in the last nine months of 2024, analysts estimate.

13 Jun 2025 - 7:00PM

Use of Huawei’s Ascend AI chips “anywhere in the world” could be interpreted as a violation of US export controls, according to new guidance from Washington. Photo: Shutterstock

Nvidia

Nvidia to exclude China from forecasts amid US chip export controls

‘I’ve told all of our investors … our forecasts will not include the China market,’ Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNN.

13 Jun 2025 - 6:12AMvideocam

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles in Paris, France on Thursday. Photo: AFP

US-China tech war

Nvidia CEO says Huawei has everyone ‘covered’ if US chip ban on China stays

Still, Jensen Huang says his company’s technology remains a generation ahead of those developed by Chinese rivals.

12 Jun 2025 - 9:44PM

Semiconductors

Nvidia bets on European AI push amid shrinking China revenue

The chip designer pledged to build 20 AI factories on the continent, including a German facility in the works to be equipped with 10,000 GPUs.

12 Jun 2025 - 4:00PM

Artificial intelligence

iFlytek says using local chips in AI models extends development time by 3 months

Liu’s comments show how some Chinese tech companies are determined to improve their AI capabilities without access to Nvidia chips.

11 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM

Huawei’s Ascend 910 chip is displayed during the 2023 PT Expo China show. Photo: Shutterstock Images

Technology

Opinion | Who will win the AI contest of the century?

While the US and China appear to be in a two-horse race, no country can afford to ignore AI development and adoption.

6 Jun 2025 - 8:30PMvideocam

Tiangong Ultra, a humanoid robot, crosses the finish line first during the E-Town Humanoid Robot Half Marathon, in Beijing, on April 19. Photo: Reuters

Xiaomi

Xiaomi founder stays on as honorary chairman at Chinese software firm

Kingsoft Office is best known for its WPS Office software, a popular local alternative to Microsoft Office.

5 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM

US-China relations

Opinion | US-China trade war goes nuclear with Trump’s chip software ban

Sweeping ban, albeit hard to enforce, threatens to kneecap China’s semiconductor ambitions and endanger its national security.

4 Jun 2025 - 8:30PMvideocam

Semiconductors

Nvidia builds new AI chip for China with computing cluster capabilities: report

Company plans to produce more than 1 million units of its new China-tailored B30 chip this year, according to The Information.

2 Jun 2025 - 8:00PM

Nvidia is expected to introduce its latest China-tailored graphics processing unit in July. Photo: Shutterstock

US-China relations

Editorial | Smart money in US still bets on Beijing

From banking giants to tech behemoths, American firms are a step ahead of Washington politicians when it comes to understanding the value of China.

2 Jun 2025 - 6:30AM

China technology

My Take | Springtime for China’s engineers and scientists. In US, not so much

As the chip war rages, Chinese firms and institutes have had a boost in state support while their counterparts face crackdowns and restrictions.

1 Jun 2025 - 9:00PM

Taiwan economy

Trade war elephant in the showroom at Computex Taipei, Asia’s biggest tech expo

As Trump threatens to reinstate high tariffs on Taiwan, tech-sector exporters reliant on the US market fear the worst.

31 May 2025 - 11:00AMvideocam

People attend Computex 2025 at Nangang Exhibition Center in Taipei on May 20, 2025. Photo: AFP

Semiconductors

Nvidia ‘considering’ new AI chip for China but rules out Hopper series

After Nvidia revealed the H20 ban in mid April, CEO Huang has repeatedly signalled the importance the company places on the Chinese market.

29 May 2025 - 8:00PM

Nvidia

Nvidia gives solid forecast, even as China slump mars growth

While the chipmaker is being squeezed out of China, other Trump policy changes may help open up additional markets, such as the Middle East.

29 May 2025 - 6:00AMvideocam

Hong Kong economy

Letters | Though still low, Hong Kong’s jobless rate rise can’t be taken lightly

Readers discuss the challenges presented by AI and other tech advances, what SMEs can do to minimise tariff pain, and the decision to cut training hours for medical laboratory technologists.

23 May 2025 - 11:30AM

US-China trade war

Trump changed Biden’s AI chip rules. What now, will it affect China trade talks?

In tech supremacy battle, Trump undoes Biden-era rule, prompting warning that controls over Chinese chips may make their ecosystem stronger.

22 May 2025 - 10:14PMvideocam

The US last week rescinded the AI Diffusion Rule laid out by the Biden administration, two days before the policy was set to enter effect. Photo: AFP

Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek 2.0? Shanghai quant fund claims AI training breakthrough

Goku says in a paper submitted to the ‘AI Olympics’ that its training method is superior to those adopted by DeepSeek, OpenAI.

22 May 2025 - 6:00PMvideocam

Shanghai Goku Technologies, a quantitative fund, has established an AI subsidiary, following the path of Hangzhou-based DeepSeek. Photo: Screenshot

Semiconductors

Nvidia CEO blasts US AI chip restrictions on China as a ‘failure’

‘Power is quite cost-effective in China. And there’s plenty of land. And so the ban on H20 is not effective,’ Jensen Huang told reporters at Computex.

21 May 2025 - 4:13PMvideocam

US-China trade war

China vows to use anti-sanctions law if US ban on Huawei chips enforced

As Washington’s new guidelines target the Chinese tech giant, Beijing warns it will closely monitor entities that help enforce the embargo.

21 May 2025 - 5:36PMvideocam

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