The CEO of NVIDIA Jensen Huang between 100 most influential people of 2021 according to TIME. A new recognition for the CEO and co-founder of the US company after the Robert N. Noyce Award 2021. Huang in good company in the section “Innovators“, along with Elon Musk (SpaceX, Tesla) and Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum), while Apple CEO Tim Cook was included among the” Titans “.
In an article accompanying the cover, DeepLearning.AI founder and Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng explains why Huang earned such recognition. “Artificial intelligence it is transforming our world. The software that allows computers to do things that once required human perception and judgment it largely depends on the hardware made possible by Jensen Huang“.
“In 2003, amid a great skepticism, Huang directed NVIDIA to adapt the chips designed to display graphics on computer screens, known as graphics processing unit or GPU, to run other more general computing activities“.
“The advances made – and the powerful chips – laid the foundation for hosting ever-larger neural networks, the programs behind much of today’s AI. In the process, it helped enable a revolution that allows phones to respond. to the loud questions, to the farms to weed but not the crops, to the doctors to predict the properties of new drugs, and other wonders are on the way. “
Andrew Ng states that “Huang’s bet paid off because he is one of the most technically savvy CEOs in the world. also a compassionate administrator to his employees and a generous advocate of education in science and technology. With AI technologies still emerging creating an insatiable hunger for computing power, Huang’s team well positioned to continue driving technological advances for decades to come“.
And precisely that forward-looking decision to see beyond simple GPUs as a tool for graphics that today allows NVIDIA to place itself at the top of an unprecedented industrial revolution. In several interviews, but if you want you can learn more in this article dedicated to the figure of Huang, the CEO said that the choice of opening GPUs to generic computing was a complicated and risky step, difficult to digest both internally and on the market, but without which Nvidia might not be here today.
Huang has not only expanded the reach of NVIDIA making it a fierce competitor of larger and more deeply-rooted giants, but at the same time managed to preserve his first love, the gaming market, today once again in very strong expansion and fundamental pillar, albeit parallel to a enterprise sector once absent, in the growth of the company.