Huang Loses $15 Billion as Nvidia Sinks
Nvidia's 9.3% drop, its worst since January 2025, cost Jensen Huang $15.1 billion as investors bet the midterms will slow the AI buildout.
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Co-founder, president & CEO, NVIDIA
Jensen Huang co-founded NVIDIA in 1993 and has served as its president and chief executive since the company began. Before NVIDIA, he worked at AMD and LSI Logic. His career spans the company’s development of graphics processors, the CUDA parallel computing platform and AI computing systems. He earned electrical engineering degrees from Oregon State University and Stanford University.
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Jensen Huang co-founded NVIDIA in 1993 and has served as its president and chief executive since the company began. Before NVIDIA, he worked at AMD and LSI Logic. His career spans the company’s development of graphics processors, the CUDA parallel computing platform and AI computing systems. He earned electrical engineering degrees from Oregon State University and Stanford University.
- Current role
- Co-founder, president & CEO, NVIDIA ↗
- Previously
- AMD, 1984–1985; LSI Logic, 1985–1993 ↗
- NVIDIA founding
- 5 April 1993 ↗
- Known for
- NVIDIA; GPUs; CUDA ↗
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Selected research, leadership and career milestones, newest first.
Introduces the Blackwell platform
NVIDIA announces its Blackwell computing platform at GTC, with Huang presenting a new architecture designed for large-scale AI training and inference workloads.
Source: NVIDIA ↗NVIDIA introduces CUDA
NVIDIA introduces CUDA, a parallel computing platform and programming model that allows developers to use GPUs for scientific and other general computing workloads.
Source: NVIDIA ↗NVIDIA goes public
NVIDIA begins public trading in January 1999. Its investor relations FAQ records the IPO date as 22 January and the offering price as twelve dollars.
Source: NVIDIA ↗Co-founds NVIDIA
Huang establishes NVIDIA with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem. The company initially focuses on bringing three-dimensional graphics to gaming and multimedia markets.
Source: NVIDIA ↗Joins LSI Logic
Huang begins a period at chip manufacturer LSI Logic that lasts until 1993, holding several positions before leaving to establish NVIDIA with his co-founders.
Source: NVIDIA ↗Begins work at AMD
Huang works at Advanced Micro Devices from 1984 to 1985, an early stage of his semiconductor career before LSI Logic and NVIDIA.
Source: NVIDIA ↗
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