Who is Jensen Huang? Nvidia chief under scrutiny over affair and spying reports

Some call him the godfather of AI, he's the tech man in the black leather jacket, Nvidia's co-founder, president and CEO. Instead of having one billion humans use computers, in the future we will have trillions of AIs use computers. But Jensen Wang's story begins far from Silicon Valley. He was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1963 and immigrated to the United States with his brother when he was nine. A computer at his high school sparked a lifelong fascination, and he went on to study electrical engineering at Oregon State University. There he met Laurie Mills, his lab partner, future wife and mother of their two children. He completed his master's at Stanford University and worked for multiple tech companies, but it was a fateful meeting with two friends at a Denny's restaurant that would change everything. It was 1993, he was 30, and they took $40,000 in capital and co-founded what would become NVIDIA. And so what happens when we have 100 times more agents using computers? We need 100 times larger semiconductor industry. Their initial goal was to create graphics processing units for fast-moving video games, but their chips would go on to reach far beyond the field, helping power AI, mobile computing, and autonomous vehicle technology. In 2017, Hwang was named Fortune magazine's Business Person of the Year and the accolades kept coming. He became one of the globe's richest people and a close associate of US President Donald Trump. Today, the company he founded stands as the world's second most valuable company after Apple, but now faces questions about its future. After more than three decades at the helm, Hwang's influence runs throughout Nvidia. Apple's own experience after Steve Jobs shows the importance of proving that a company can thrive beyond its defining figure. For Nvidia, the challenge is to keep that confidence intact amidst the controversy.