Jensen Huang
Co-founder of NVIDIA who powered modern graphics and AI.
Their Story
Jensen Huang is an engineer who co-founded NVIDIA, a company known for graphics processing units, or GPUs. Born in Taiwan, he immigrated to the United States as a child. The powerful chips his company makes drive video game graphics and have become essential for modern artificial intelligence.
Era
2000s & Today
Field
Computer Graphics Hardware
Jensen Huang
Co-founder of NVIDIA who powered modern graphics and AI.
Technology · Computer Graphics Hardware · 2000s & Today · Asian American Heritage, Immigrant Innovators
Their Story
Jensen Huang is an engineer who co-founded NVIDIA, a company known for graphics processing units, or GPUs. Born in Taiwan, he immigrated to the United States as a child. The powerful chips his company makes drive video game graphics and have become essential for modern artificial intelligence.
Key Innovation
Helped popularize the GPU, a chip that powers fast graphics and AI computing.
Why It Matters Today
The chips his company makes run the games students play and the AI tools they are starting to use.
Learn More
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen_Huang
Wilkinson STEM Education Foundation · 251 American Innovators · wilkinsonstemfoundation.org
