Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang[a] (Chinese: 黃仁勳; pinyin: Huáng Rénxūn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: N̂g Jîn-hun; born February 17, 1963) is a Taiwanese and American businessman, electrical engineer, and philanthropist who is the president, co-founder, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Nvidia, the world's largest semiconductor company.

[3] The son of Taiwanese American immigrants, Huang spent his childhood in Taiwan and Thailand before moving to the United States, where he was a student in Kentucky and Oregon.

After graduating from Stanford University, he launched Nvidia in 1993 from a local Denny's restaurant at the age of 30 and has remained president and CEO since its founding.

Under Huang, Nvidia experienced rapid growth during the AI boom and reached a market capitalization of $3 trillion, surpassing Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta.

[11] In the late 1960s, Hsing-tai traveled from Taiwan to New York City to train under an air conditioning company and, after returning home, resolved to send his sons to the United States.

[14] Both Huang's aunt and uncle were recent immigrants to Washington state; they accidentally enrolled him and his brother in the Oneida Baptist Institute, a religious reform academy in Kentucky for troubled youth,[14] mistakenly believing it to be a prestigious boarding school.

[15] Each student was expected to work every day, and his older brother was assigned to perform manual labor on a nearby tobacco farm.

[17] In Oneida, Huang cleaned toilets every day, learned to play table-tennis,[b] joined the swimming team,[19] and appeared in Sports Illustrated at age 14.

[20] Two years after Huang arrived in Oneida, his parents moved to the United States and settled in Beaverton, Oregon, where the brothers withdrew from school in Kentucky to live back with them.

He skipped two grades, graduated at age sixteen, and became a nationally ranked table-tennis player in addition to being a member of its mathematics, computer, and science clubs.

[15] Beginning at age 15,[23] Huang also got his first job working the graveyard shift[24] at a local Denny's restaurant as a dishwasher, busboy, and waiter from 1978 to 1983.

[29] Years later, while working as a microchip designer in Silicon Valley, he concurrently pursued graduate night classes at Stanford University, where he earned a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1992.

[34] When business began to slow for Sun Microsystems after 1990, Huang, along with Priem and Malachowsky, each resigned their jobs to pursue a venture together in making graphics chips for PC games.

[36] Huang chose for them to meet at Denny's due to his prior work experience at the restaurant chain and because it was "quieter than home and had cheap coffee".

As of 2024, Huang has been Nvidia's chief executive for over three decades, a tenure described by The Wall Street Journal as "almost unheard of in fast-moving Silicon Valley".

[3]According to Huang, the three co-founders in 1993 had "no idea how" to start a company,[38] "building Nvidia turned out to have been a million times harder" than they expected, and they probably would not have done it if they had realized up front "the pain and suffering [involved] ... the challenges [they were] going to endure, the embarrassment and the shame, and the list of all the things that [would] go wrong.

In March 2024, Mark Zuckerberg wrote on Instagram with a picture of himself and Huang wearing each other's signature jacket: "He's like Taylor Swift, but for tech".

[51] In June 2024, Nvidia's market capitalization reached US$3 trillion for the first time and Huang's net worth grew to US$100 billion.

[53] During this keynote, Huang made a number of announcements such as a new gaming chip called the GeForce RTX 50-series, new chips for both PCs and laptops,[53] an agreement to provide Toyota self-driving vehicles with Nvidia's Drive AGX Orin supercomputer and operating system called DriveOS,[54] and the release of Cosmos, a series of foundational AI models designed to support the development of self-driving cars, humanoid robots and industrial robots.

[60] While at Oregon State University, Huang met his future wife, Lori Mills, who was his engineering lab partner at the time.