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Jensen Huang

The latest news on Jensen Huang, co-founder, president and CEO of NVIDIA, including American business news and updates.

Born

17 Feb 1963

Industry

Technology, Business

Job Title

Founder, president and CEO of Nvidia

The magazine cited 2025 as the year when the potential of artificial intelligence “roared into view” with no turning back. Photo: Shutterstock

United States

‘Architects of AI’ named Time’s 2025 Person of the Year

Time’s Person of the Year highlights how AI reshaped our world. Donald Trump was named 2024 honoree, succeeding 2023 winner Taylor Swift.

11 Dec 2025 - 11:14PM

Artificial intelligence

AI’s US$400 billion problem: Are chips getting old too fast?

11 Dec 2025 - 11:46AM

Artificial intelligence

Microsoft makes US$17.5 billion pledge for AI cloud in India

10 Dec 2025 - 12:03PM

Semiconductors

China’s AI developers to welcome Nvidia’s H200 chip shipments, analysts say

Nvidia faces stronger domestic competition from the likes of Huawei, Cambricon, Moore Threads and MetaX.

9 Dec 2025 - 9:00PM

Nvidia’s H200 chips are expected to be in demand in China after Washington approved shipments to the country. Photo: Shutterstock

US-China tech war

China may find Nvidia H200 chips too good to refuse

Beijing snubbed Nvidia’s H20 chip earlier in the year as China works towards self-sufficiency in technology. Rejecting the vastly more powerful H200 may be harder to do.

9 Dec 2025 - 5:00PM

US-China relations

Trump gives green light for Nvidia to sell H200 AI chips in China

The move has upset China hawks in Washington, who are concerned that selling more advanced AI chips to Beijing could help boost its military.

9 Dec 2025 - 7:59AMvideocam

US-China trade war

As China defies US tech blockade, can local AI chipmakers capture Nvidia share?

Vast pool of engineering talent seen as a potent driving force for country’s challenge to US tech supremacy.

5 Dec 2025 - 9:30PM

Nvidia’s H20 AI chip was designed for the China market. Photo: Shutterstock

Artificial intelligence

China’s top AI chip firms set for bumper IPOs as Nvidia kept out of market

Shanghai-based MetaX set its IPO pricing at 104.66 yuan, according to a company filing on Wednesday.

5 Dec 2025 - 11:59AM

US-China relations

Nvidia CEO meets Trump, says he’s not sure if China would accept H200 chips

He says he and the US president discussed export controls before he met lawmakers on the Senate Banking Committee.

4 Dec 2025 - 6:26AMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

Amazon to use Nvidia tech in AI chips, roll out new servers

Nvidia has been pushing to sign up other chip firms to adopt its NVLink technology, with Intel, Qualcomm and now AWS on board.

3 Dec 2025 - 11:05AM

Artificial intelligence

Nvidia takes US$2 billion stake in Synopsys as AI deal spree accelerates

Nvidia’s flurry of investments has raised concerns that it is paying customers to buy its chips.

2 Dec 2025 - 11:23AM

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference in Washington, DC, on October 28, 2025. Photo: AFP

Taiwan

Hong Kong fire, Trump calls in Japan-China row, Macron visit

This week: Hong Kong fire kills at least 128, Trump speaks to Xi and Takaichi amid Japan-China row, Bessent says Xi and Trump may meet four times in 2026. Next week: France’s Macron visits China, EU economic security doctrine, November factory activity, and more.

28 Nov 2025 - 5:54PM

US-China relations

Trump team considering selling Nvidia H200 chips to China, insiders say

While still in the early stages, the talks mark a big departure from the administration’s public stance on semiconductor export controls.

22 Nov 2025 - 1:39PMvideocam

Artificial intelligence

Nvidia revenue soars despite ‘disappointment’ in China market

Revenue surges 62 per cent to a record US$57 billion, even as sales in China, including Hong Kong, plunge 63 per cent to US$3 billion.

20 Nov 2025 - 5:00PM

Artificial intelligence

Nvidia’s strong forecast calms AI bubble jitters, for now

Shares of the chip designer jump 5 per cent in extended trading after falling nearly 8 per cent in November.

20 Nov 2025 - 9:48AM

The Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Photo: EPA

Donald Trump

Ronaldo, Musk attend Trump’s White House dinner with Saudi crown prince

Elon Musk was among business titans invited to the gala dinner, as tensions with Donald Trump thaw.

19 Nov 2025 - 3:23PM

US-China relations

Opinion | US national security focus throws a spanner in the workings of global trade

While attention to legitimate national security interests is justified, trade matters have traditionally been viewed as a parallel sphere.

18 Nov 2025 - 5:08PMvideocam

Hong Kong society

Letters | Hong Kong’s AI push must include safeguards against AI hallucination

Readers discuss a lesson learned from a recent academic scandal, easing the rules of tax residency in Hong Kong, and dire predictions about the Chinese economy.

17 Nov 2025 - 3:59PM

HKU has launched an investigation into a published doctoral thesis, after it was found to contain fictitious AI-generated references. Photo: Shutterstock

US-China trade war

US must deny China cutting-edge technology, ex-commerce secretary says

Gina Raimondo believes tougher export controls are vital for US national security and high-end chips should be kept out of Chinese hands.

14 Nov 2025 - 7:46AMvideocam

Semiconductors

Semiconductor giant TSMC posts slowest growth in 18 months amid AI bubble debate

The Taiwanese contract manufacturer is the go-to chipmaker for Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices, Qualcomm and Apple.

11 Nov 2025 - 2:43PM

US-China tech war

Ant Group joins China’s nuclear fusion funding surge as AI fuels energy demand

Ant Group’s backing of fusion start-up Xeonova underscores the growing flow of capital in China’s experimental energy frontier.

10 Nov 2025 - 6:00PM

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, this year heralded major breakthroughs in the development of nuclear fusion. Photo: Xinhua

Semiconductors

Nvidia CEO says no ‘active discussions’ on selling Blackwell chips to China

‘It’s up to China when they would like Nvidia products to go back to serve the market,’ Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang says.

7 Nov 2025 - 4:09PM

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says he looks forward to China changing its policy on the US company’s chip business. Photo: Reuters

Artificial intelligence

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns China will ‘win the AI race’: report

Western countries, including the US and Britain, are being held back by ‘cynicism’ over AI, Huang says.

6 Nov 2025 - 4:20PM

South Korea

Frenzy over Seoul eatery table used by Nvidia CEO prompts time limit

The fried chicken restaurant now limits the use of Huang’s table to one hour as diners flock to the spot even before opening hours.

5 Nov 2025 - 1:15PMvideocam

United States

Nvidia can’t sell its most advanced AI chip to China, White House says

Sales of the ‘crown jewel’ Blackwell chips may be possible later, when they are outclassed by new designs, US Treasury chief Bessent says.

5 Nov 2025 - 5:24AM

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presents a Blackwell platform at an event ahead in Taipei, Taiwan, in June 2024. Photo: Reuters

Artificial intelligence

Trump says Nvidia’s Blackwell AI chip not for ‘other people’

The possibility that Blackwell chips might be sold to Chinese firms has drawn criticism from China hawks in Washington.

3 Nov 2025 - 11:06AM

Nvidia

Jensen Huang’s chimaek dinner left out Nvidia’s No 1 supplier. Why?

The question hanging over the Gangnam gathering was straightforward: why was Nvidia’s largest supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI chips, absent?

3 Nov 2025 - 8:54AMvideocam

Nvidia

Video | Nvidia CEO mobbed in Seoul

The tech tycoon’s reception in South Korea came as his company became the world’s first US$5 trillion company.

31 Oct 2025 - 2:54PM

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Jensen Huang

‘Architects of AI’ named Time’s 2025 Person of the Year

Time’s Person of the Year highlights how AI reshaped our world. Donald Trump was named 2024 honoree, succeeding 2023 winner Taylor Swift.

AI’s US$400 billion problem: Are chips getting old too fast?

Microsoft makes US$17.5 billion pledge for AI cloud in India

China’s AI developers to welcome Nvidia’s H200 chip shipments, analysts say

Nvidia faces stronger domestic competition from the likes of Huawei, Cambricon, Moore Threads and MetaX.

China may find Nvidia H200 chips too good to refuse

Beijing snubbed Nvidia’s H20 chip earlier in the year as China works towards self-sufficiency in technology. Rejecting the vastly more powerful H200 may be harder to do.

Trump gives green light for Nvidia to sell H200 AI chips in China

The move has upset China hawks in Washington, who are concerned that selling more advanced AI chips to Beijing could help boost its military.

As China defies US tech blockade, can local AI chipmakers capture Nvidia share?

Vast pool of engineering talent seen as a potent driving force for country’s challenge to US tech supremacy.

China’s top AI chip firms set for bumper IPOs as Nvidia kept out of market

Shanghai-based MetaX set its IPO pricing at 104.66 yuan, according to a company filing on Wednesday.

Nvidia CEO meets Trump, says he’s not sure if China would accept H200 chips

He says he and the US president discussed export controls before he met lawmakers on the Senate Banking Committee.

Amazon to use Nvidia tech in AI chips, roll out new servers

Nvidia has been pushing to sign up other chip firms to adopt its NVLink technology, with Intel, Qualcomm and now AWS on board.

Nvidia takes US$2 billion stake in Synopsys as AI deal spree accelerates

Nvidia’s flurry of investments has raised concerns that it is paying customers to buy its chips.

Hong Kong fire, Trump calls in Japan-China row, Macron visit

This week: Hong Kong fire kills at least 128, Trump speaks to Xi and Takaichi amid Japan-China row, Bessent says Xi and Trump may meet four times in 2026. Next week: France’s Macron visits China, EU economic security doctrine, November factory activity, and more.

Trump team considering selling Nvidia H200 chips to China, insiders say

While still in the early stages, the talks mark a big departure from the administration’s public stance on semiconductor export controls.

Nvidia revenue soars despite ‘disappointment’ in China market

Revenue surges 62 per cent to a record US$57 billion, even as sales in China, including Hong Kong, plunge 63 per cent to US$3 billion.

Nvidia’s strong forecast calms AI bubble jitters, for now

Shares of the chip designer jump 5 per cent in extended trading after falling nearly 8 per cent in November.

Ronaldo, Musk attend Trump’s White House dinner with Saudi crown prince

Elon Musk was among business titans invited to the gala dinner, as tensions with Donald Trump thaw.

.css-1m2rp1p{color:#34b8b5;}Opinion | US national security focus throws a spanner in the workings of global trade

While attention to legitimate national security interests is justified, trade matters have traditionally been viewed as a parallel sphere.

.css-sioo19{color:#c79a00;}Letters | Hong Kong’s AI push must include safeguards against AI hallucination

Readers discuss a lesson learned from a recent academic scandal, easing the rules of tax residency in Hong Kong, and dire predictions about the Chinese economy.

US must deny China cutting-edge technology, ex-commerce secretary says

Gina Raimondo believes tougher export controls are vital for US national security and high-end chips should be kept out of Chinese hands.

Semiconductor giant TSMC posts slowest growth in 18 months amid AI bubble debate

The Taiwanese contract manufacturer is the go-to chipmaker for Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices, Qualcomm and Apple.

Ant Group joins China’s nuclear fusion funding surge as AI fuels energy demand

Ant Group’s backing of fusion start-up Xeonova underscores the growing flow of capital in China’s experimental energy frontier.

Nvidia CEO says no ‘active discussions’ on selling Blackwell chips to China

‘It’s up to China when they would like Nvidia products to go back to serve the market,’ Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang says.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns China will ‘win the AI race’: report

Western countries, including the US and Britain, are being held back by ‘cynicism’ over AI, Huang says.

Frenzy over Seoul eatery table used by Nvidia CEO prompts time limit

The fried chicken restaurant now limits the use of Huang’s table to one hour as diners flock to the spot even before opening hours.

Nvidia can’t sell its most advanced AI chip to China, White House says

Sales of the ‘crown jewel’ Blackwell chips may be possible later, when they are outclassed by new designs, US Treasury chief Bessent says.

Trump says Nvidia’s Blackwell AI chip not for ‘other people’

The possibility that Blackwell chips might be sold to Chinese firms has drawn criticism from China hawks in Washington.

Jensen Huang’s chimaek dinner left out Nvidia’s No 1 supplier. Why?

The question hanging over the Gangnam gathering was straightforward: why was Nvidia’s largest supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI chips, absent?

.css-rcruog{color:#C79A00;}Video | Nvidia CEO mobbed in Seoul

The tech tycoon’s reception in South Korea came as his company became the world’s first US$5 trillion company.

Opinion | US national security focus throws a spanner in the workings of global trade

Letters | Hong Kong’s AI push must include safeguards against AI hallucination

Video | Nvidia CEO mobbed in Seoul