Co-founder, president and CEO of Nvidia. He has led the company from graphics processors into accelerated computing and AI infrastructure.
Nvidia invested in Coherent to secure upstream silicon photonics supply for its CPO roadmap (Spectrum-6, NVLink), validating Coherent as a critical supplier.
Nvidia is orchestrating a $750B wave of AI infrastructure deals including a $500B+ partnership with SK Hynix for memory and a $1B investment in Korea's AI cloud, arguing the semiconductor industry must grow 10x over the next decade to support 100B AI agents and billions of robots.
Nvidia now directly invests in frontier labs (OpenAI $30B, Anthropic $10B) to secure compute demand and align roadmaps; Huang admits missing Anthropic early due to capital constraints but won't repeat the mistake.