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The story

Born in Tainan, Taiwan, on February 17, 1963, Jensen Huang moved to the United States as a child, spent time at a boarding school in rural Kentucky, then finished high school early in Oregon.

He studied electrical engineering at Oregon State University (1984), where he met his wife Lori, designed chips at LSI Logic and AMD, and earned a master's from Stanford (1992).

In April 1993 he co-founded NVIDIA with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, planning the company at a Denny's in San Jose.

The long bet: 3D graphics, then the GPU (GeForce 256, 1999), then CUDA (2006), which let researchers program GPUs for anything. When deep learning took off, NVIDIA was ready β€” and accelerated computing became the backbone of modern AI.

Timeline

  1. Born in Tainan, Taiwan

  2. Graduates from Oregon State University

  3. Master's degree from Stanford

  4. Co-founds NVIDIA

  5. NVIDIA IPO and GeForce 256, marketed as the first GPU

  6. CUDA launches

  7. AlexNet trained on NVIDIA GPUs kicks off the deep-learning era

  8. First DGX-1 AI system; an early unit goes to OpenAI

  9. Named to the TIME 100

  10. NVIDIA passes $1 trillion in market value

  11. First company to reach $4 trillion

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When was NVIDIA founded?

April 1993, by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, who planned the company over meals at a Denny's in San Jose, California.

Why the leather jacket?

It has been his signature look at keynotes for years β€” and one of the internet's favourite running jokes.

Do you accept donations or sell anything?

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