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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

(From left) Billionaires Jensen Huang, Jerry Yang and Chen Tianqiao are among the world’s wealthiest Chinese-Americans. Photos: Reuters; EPA; Handout

Millionaires and billionaires

8 of the richest Chinese-Americans in 2025 – net worths, ranked

From humble beginnings to emerging as industry leaders, these billionaires achieved the American dream after their early struggles – one even had his US visa application rejected eight times.

25 Apr 2025 - 4:00AM

DeepSeek

DeepSeek on recruitment drive as start-up remains tight-lipped on new AI model

24 Apr 2025 - 10:42PMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang lobbies Japan to boost power generation for AI

22 Apr 2025 - 2:11PMvideocam

US-China trade war

As trade war heats up, China’s premier wants focus on positive expectations

Li Qiang tells State Council study session in Beijing that market economy is ‘largely an expectation economy’.

18 Apr 2025 - 6:15PM

Cars await export at the port in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Wednesday. Photo: AFP

US-China relations

Opinion | Why second Trump administration is going easy on the China-bashing

Lessons from past policies and proximity to business leaders are likely to have shifted the US president’s otherwise bellicose tone.

11 Mar 2025 - 5:30AMvideocam

IPO

China fresh-tea brand Chagee follows Mixue, Guming in IPO rush

Company receives approval for Nasdaq or NYSE listing after Beijing’s pledge to help more mainland companies raise funds.

7 Mar 2025 - 2:45PM

DeepSeek

China’s science fund calls for more research after studying DeepSeek models

More than 10 experts from the country’s best universities attended the seminar, which was held in Beijing on February 20.

3 Mar 2025 - 11:38PM

This illustration photograph taken January 29, 2025 shows screens displaying the logos of DeepSeek and OpenAI. Photo: AFP

Artificial intelligence

Nvidia results beat expectations despite DeepSeek’s breakthrough

Orders for Nvidia’s new Blackwell chips are ‘amazing’, CEO Jensen Huang says.

27 Feb 2025 - 10:01AM

US-China tech war

Nvidia CEO concludes whirlwind Taiwan tour after key meetings

Jensen Huang met top industry leaders, including TSMC founder Morris Chang and Foxconn chairman Liu Young-way.

21 Jan 2025 - 10:54AM

Semiconductors

Nvidia CEO Huang thanks China staff for loyalty amid US chip curbs

The American entrepreneur touted Nvidia’s contribution to China’s modernisation on a trip to Beijing.

20 Jan 2025 - 5:00PM

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holds a computer chip mock-up during a speech at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. Photo: Reuters

Semiconductors

Nvidia CEO skips Trump’s inauguration for Lunar New Year Asia visit

Jensen Huang is expected to miss the ceremony, while Apple’s Tim Cook, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Tesla’s Elon Musk are attending.

17 Jan 2025 - 12:30PM

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends the opening ceremony of a plant of Siliconware Precision Industries in Taiwan on Thursday. Photo: Reuters

Semiconductors

Nvidia CEO to visit China amid antitrust probe, US AI curbs

Jensen Huang is set to tour the mainland Chinese cities of Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing, before flying to Taipei later this week.

14 Jan 2025 - 2:24PM

Semiconductors

Tech war: China advocates use of local AI chips over those from Nvidia

AI chip users on the mainland have been informally advised to prioritise local alternatives, including those from Huawei, sources say.

7 Oct 2024 - 9:00AM

Semiconductors

Nvidia said to prepare a version of new Blackwell AI chip for China market

Shipments of Nvidia’s ‘B20’ artificial intelligence chip are said to start in the second quarter of 2025.

22 Jul 2024 - 10:24PM

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang presents the firm’s new Blackwell AI chip platform at an event ahead of the Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 2, 2024. Photo: Reuters

Taiwan

Backlash in mainland China over Taiwan comment by Nvidia’s Jensen Huang

Huang may have pop star status in his birthplace but on the mainland, some are calling for a Nvidia boycott.

7 Jun 2024 - 6:07PMvideocam

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., during a news conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on Monday, June 4, 2024. Photo: Bloomberg

TSMC

TSMC’s new chairman affirms forecast of AI-fuelled chip market recovery in 2024

TSMC chairman and chief executive C C Wei stuck with previous projections for 10 per cent growth in the global semiconductor market this year, excluding the vast memory chip sector.

4 Jun 2024 - 2:50PM

Artificial intelligence

‘The computer will now generate skill’: Nvidia CEO on near-future technology

Ahead of the opening of Taiwan’s Computex trade show, the Nvidia chief executive presented how ‘AI factories’ and ‘physical AI’ would help transform industries.

3 Jun 2024 - 6:27AMvideocam

Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg raves about Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, calls him ‘Taylor Swift of tech’

Zuckerberg compared Huang to the US pop star in an Instagram post, where they switched jackets in a ‘jersey swap’.

28 Mar 2024 - 2:48PMvideocam

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg poses in Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s iconic black leather jacket. Photo: Instagram/zuck

Semiconductors

US memory chip maker Micron soars after AI growth boosts revenue forecast

Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra promised investors that 2024 will mark a rebound for the memory chip industry and 2025 will see record sales levels, driven by opportunities enabled by AI.

21 Mar 2024 - 3:28PMvideocam

Semiconductors

Nvidia sued by 3 authors over AI use of copyrighted works

US authors Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O’Nan said Nvidia used their copyrighted books without permission to train its NeMo AI platform.

11 Mar 2024 - 11:43AM

Semiconductors

Huawei’s China-made chip used US gear from Applied Materials and Lam Research

Huawei and SMIC relied on US technology to produce the 7-nm chip for the Mate 60 Pro smartphone, sources told Bloomberg.

8 Mar 2024 - 3:38PMvideocam

An advertisement for Huawei Technologies’ Mate 60-series smartphones is seen in Shanghai on September 17, 2023. Photo: Bloomberg

Malaysia

Is Malaysia set to become a start-up hub that can compete with Singapore?

Malaysia has announced a goal to create five domestic US$1 billion ‘unicorns’ by 2025 as part of its plan to become a global start-up hub.

9 Mar 2024 - 1:51AM

The skyline of Kuala Lumpur. Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli said last May that the Malaysian government plans to make the capital a regional hub for start-up companies. Photo: Bloomberg

Semiconductors

Is Nvidia the next Tesla, as investors move from chasing EV to AI?

While Nvidia’s shares have added 66 per cent this year after more than tripling in 2023, Tesla shares are down more than half from their 2021 peak.

4 Mar 2024 - 2:59PM

Semiconductors

Huawei’s AI chip prowess under scrutiny after Nvidia taps it as likely rival

Huawei Technologies’ new Ascend 910B chip, already available on the mainland, is said to be on par in terms of computing power with Nvidia’s sought-after A100 graphics processing unit.

3 Mar 2024 - 12:00PM

US-China tech war

Nvidia’s stellar results show it can thrive amid China decoupling

Analysts expect even more growth from chip designer Nvidia in 2024 as demand for its hardware remains strong amid AI boom.

23 Feb 2024 - 9:30PM

Nvidia’s stellar results show it can thrive amid China decoupling. Photo: Reuters

Semiconductors

Nvidia sampling alternative AI chips to China as US restrictions take a toll

US chip giant Nvidia said it has started shipping alternative GPU samples to Chinese customers as Washington’s restrictions on the export of advanced chips to China begin to take a toll on revenues.

23 Feb 2024 - 2:56PM

Nvidia products on display at the annual Foxconn Tech Day in Taipei, Taiwan October 18, 2023. Photo: Reuters

Artificial intelligence

Nvidia expects threefold jump in sales despite US chip curbs on China

The AI poster child’s revenue has continued to grow despite tightened restrictions on trade with one of its largest markets: China.

22 Feb 2024 - 10:20AMvideocam

Foxconn

Apple’s operating chief makes rare Taiwan visit for Foxconn gala

Jeff Williams was a guest of honour at a gala celebrating the iPhone assembler’s 50th anniversary, also attended by SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and Arm boss Rene Haas.

21 Feb 2024 - 1:24PM

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