Jen-Hsun Huang

Jen-Hsun Huang

Jen-Hsun Huang ( Chinese  黃仁勳 , Pinyin Huáng Rénxūn ; born February 17, 1963 in Tainan , Taiwan ), also Jensen Huang , is a Taiwanese-American entrepreneur and manager. Huang co-founded graphics processor manufacturer Nvidia in 1993 and has been the company's CEO ever since . As of May 2020, his net worth was estimated at approximately $ 8.1 billion.

Life

Huang was born in the coastal city of Tainan, Taiwan. His family lived in Thailand for a while and then immigrated to the United States, moving first to Kentucky and then to Oregon . He graduated from Aloha High School outside of Portland . Huang received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University in 1984 and his master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1992 . After college, he was a director at LSI Logic and a microprocessor designer at AMD . On his 30th birthday in 1993, he co-founded the graphics processor manufacturer Nvidia , which he has headed ever since. Under Huang, Nvidia became a dominant force in the computer game chip industry. In 2019, his executive compensation was $ 13.6 million. Since he holds shares in Nvidia, which went public in 1999, he is a billionaire.

Huang is married and has two children.

donate

He donated $ 30 million to Stanford University for an engineering center and $ 5 million to Oregon Health & Science University for a cancer research laboratory.

Web links

Commons : Jen-Hsun Huang  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jensen Huang. Retrieved May 20, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Jen-Hsun Huang. In: Salary.com. Retrieved May 20, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Jennifer Wang: Pop In Video Gaming Pushes Nvidia CEO To Billionaire Heights. Retrieved May 20, 2020 . 
4. ↑ David Orenstein: Alumnus, NVIDIA founder pledges $ 30 million for campus engineering center. September 10, 2008, accessed May 20, 2020 .