AMD CEO Lisa Su and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang were once cousins, researchers said. Hsu told Bloomberg that the two did not grow up together and were “really distant.” “That’s an interesting coincidence.”
AMD CEO Lisa Su said in a recent interview that she never met Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, a competitor and distant relative, until late in her career.
“We weren’t able to grow up together because we were really far apart,” Su said in an interview with Bloomberg’s Emily Chan published Thursday. “We actually met at an industry event, so we were pretty far along in our respective careers.”
Gene Wu, a former journalist and genealogist, said last year that Mr. Su and Mr. Huang, the Taiwanese chief executive of the global semiconductor giant, are cousins who were once dismissed. Mr. Huang, 61, is Mr. Su’s (55) older cousin. Fan’s mother is a sister of Su’s grandfather, a summary family tree published by Wu on her Facebook account showed.
Sue confirmed her family relationship with her competitor in 2020, saying the two have a “complicated second-cousin relationship because they are distant relatives.”
An Nvidia spokesperson confirmed to CNN last year that Hsu is a distant cousin of Huang on his mother’s side.
An Nvidia spokesperson declined to comment for this story, and an AMD spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
Fan and Su have eerily similar career paths, but different upbringings.
Mr. Su was born in Tainan, and Mr. Huang was born in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan.
The AMD CEO later moved to the United States, where he grew up in New York and studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr. Huang lived in Washington and Kentucky before settling in Oregon. He then attended Oregon State University.
In an interview with Bloomberg, Hsu talked about the extended family she will visit when she returns to Taiwan.
“My father had about nine siblings and my mother had about six, so it was like a big family,” she said. “So I have a lot of cousins, uncles and aunts.”
Despite their familial ties, Su and Huang never saw each other at family gatherings.
“No family dinners,” she said. “That’s an interesting coincidence.”
