NEWSMAKER-Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: Boss of trillion-dollar chip firm powering the AI boom

The company’s pole position in AI is a decade-and-a-half in the making. Huang was born in Taiwan but moved to the United States as a child, earning engineering degrees at Oregon State University and Stanford University. In 1993 he founded Nvidia along with Curtis Priem and Chris Malachowsky, securing backing from Silicon Valley’s Sequoia Capital and others.