Jen Hsun Huang was born on February 17, 1963 in Taipei, Taiwan. Jen Hsun Huang is a businessman who comes from Taiwan, who founded the company Nvidia. After leaving the Oneida Baptist Institute and moved to Oregon with his family. At age 15, Huang started playing table tennis at a club in downtown Portland, and he placed third as a junior doubles at the U.S. Open. Jen Hsun Huang graduated from Aloha High School, located in the western suburbs of Portland. Jen Hsun Huang was studying electrical engineering at Oregon State University and received a bachelor's degree from Oregon State University.

In 1984, Oregon State University, Jen Hsun Huang then continued his studies with a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1992. During his studies at Oregon State, he met his wife Lori, his lab while in the lab, and then they got married and had two children Huang. After college, Jen Hsun Huang worked as the Director of Coreware at LSI Logic and a microprocessor designer at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). In 1993, Jen Hsun Huang AMD out of the company and established a company called Nvidia and as well as being the CEO and president director of the company was assisted by Chris Malachowsky (electronics experts from Sun Microsystems), Curtis Priem (senior staff and graphics chip designer of Sun microsystem). NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA. . He has some shares of Nvidia approximately USD $ 512.4 million in 2006. Jen Hsun Huang earnings of $ 24.6 million as the CEO of Nvidia in 2007, he entered the U.S. ranks 61 as the highest paid CEOs by the company according to Forbes magazine.


The idea nvidia name as the name of the company was initiated from a combination of the initials n as a variable in mathematics, and said video comes from the Latin meaning to finally see the name meaning "the best visual experience", however the company's publications and documentation, the name nvidia more often NVIDIA is written in capital letters. Jen Hsun


Huang later contribute to his alma mater Stanford University is a U.S. $ 30 million to build a "Jen-Hsun Huang School of Engineering Center." Building was designed by Boora Architects of Portland, Oregon. Huang was the recipient in 2007 of the Business Leader Award Silicon Valley Pioneer Education Foundation for his work in both the corporate world and philanthropic.

Under the leadership Jen Hsun Huang, NVIDIA found the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999. Since then, it has consistently set new standards in visual computing with breathtaking, interactive graphics available on devices ranging from smartphones and tablets to notebooks and workstations. NVIDIA's expertise in programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs have in parallel processing which make supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible. The company has more than 5,000 U.S. patents, including those covering designs and insights fundamental to modern computing.



Jen Hsun Huang is a recipient of the Dr.. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award from the Global Semiconductor Association in recognition of his outstanding contribution to promote development opportunities, innovation, and long-term growth of the fabless semiconductor industry. He also has received the Daniel J. Epstein Engineering Management Award from the University of Southern California and an honorary doctorate from Oregon State University.