Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang was spotted adjusting in Taipei for a big convention computex show. Far from his settled home life in San Francisco’s Billionaires Row district, the Taiwanese-American tech executive enjoys the atmospheric sights and sounds (and smells?) of one of Taipei’s many night market districts. board. Ms. Huang lived in Taiwan until she was 9 years old, when her family moved to Portland, Oregon.
NVIDIA co-founder Jensen Huang walks through a night market in Taipei last night as Nvidia’s market capitalization hits $1 trillion. #taipei #taiwan pic.twitter.com/8WZSv1k2p8May 26, 2023
In the tweet embedded above, you can see Mr. Huang being caught eating dried fruit at a night market. CW Lin, who took the photo, remembered the CEO walking around such a modest market with a suitcase in hand.
Earlier this week, we reported on Nvidia’s unusual stock price spike. Investor speculation about the fate of the AI tech business has fueled this explosive valuation, and Nvidia is one of the linchpins of this business. Huang’s net worth, which owns 3.51% of the company’s stock (over 86 million shares), has ballooned in more than two weeks from just over $26 billion two weeks ago. $34 billion today.
CW Lin’s images of Huang don’t seem to show proof of security details with the Nvidia CEO.but Latest financial statements Nvidia announced that CEO security spending increased by more than 750% last year to a total of $700,000. Does Taipei need security guards, or are they so good that you don’t even know if there are any?
Huang was last seen on the streets of Taipei in November, when he was caught “videobombing” bewildered karaoke singers and requesting songs by Lady Gaga. He was visiting the city for his WirForce 2022 eSports carnival.
On Monday, Nvidia’s CEO will take the stage at Computex 2023 and deliver a special keynote. As a PC-centric consumer his show, we expect to hear interesting details about new and upcoming GeForce hardware and software technology. However, the latest financial report reveals that games now generate about half of the revenue generated by the data center business.
