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Jensen Huang
President, CEO & Member of the Board, NVIDIA Corp- NVIDIA Corp
Jensen Huang's Journey so far ...
- Jensen Huang started working for Advanced Micro Devices Inc as a microprocessor designer in 1984
- He joined the computer chip maker LSI Logic Corp in 1985 and worked there at various position till he made his big career move in 1993
- In 1993, he co-found a computer graphics company called NVIDIA with his friends Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem
- His company invented the GPU or graphics processing unit in 1999 which revolutionised graphics being used in PCs and gave rise to the modern gaming industry
- The company also released its IPO in 1999
- In 2000, NVIDIA bagged a contract from Microsoft to develop graphic cards for their gaming console Xbox
- Soon, they started developing different types of graphics-related products for a wide array of applications including professional graphics development, cell phone graphics, multimedia graphics and graphics to be used for scientific research. Some of their most popular graphics cards included the Quadro, Tegra and nForce series
- GPU’s applications in the areas of parallel computing and deep learning also helped in advancing developments in the field of AI (artificial intelligence). The technology made way for applications such as the creation of virtual environments to be used in games and movies, self-driving cars, movement of robots, etc.
- Currently, Huang owns around 4% of NVIDIA
Before you go ...
- When Huang came to America, he was unintentionally sent to a reform school in rural Kentucky which his relatives mistook for a private school
- During his high school days, he was a nationally-ranked table tennis player