Which billionaire is the CEO of Nvidia?

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Which billionaire is the CEO of Nvidia? Jensen Huang is the answer.

Huang co-founded Nvidia in 1993 with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, and he has served as the company’s president and chief executive officer since its founding. The company began with a focus on graphics chips for personal computers and video games.

The founders reportedly developed their plan during meetings at a Denny’s restaurant in San Jose, California. Nvidia later became a major producer of graphics processing units, or GPUs. Those chips first became famous for rendering games, but their parallel-processing capabilities eventually made them central to scientific computing and artificial-intelligence workloads.

Readers sometimes confuse Nvidia’s leadership with that of AMD because both companies operate in the semiconductor and graphics markets. Huang is Nvidia’s long-serving founder-CEO; AMD has had different chief executives and also has a close family connection through Lisa Su, who is Huang’s cousin.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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