Jensen Huang hosted the chairman and chief executive officers of numerous Nvidia AI chip manufacturing partners for a sumptuous meal on Saturday. According to the Central New Agency (machine translation), at least 35 executives attended the event locally called Hwang’s “trillion dollar banquet.” Industry luminaries in attendance included heads of Quanta, Asus, Acer, Inventec, Gigabyte, ASRock, and MSI. Nvidia’s CEO also sat down for a short interview with TSMC Chairman CC Wei, and both industry giants had nothing but praise for each other.
This lunch out is reminiscent of Huang’s dinner with top executives from TSMC, MediaTek, and Quanta just before Computex 2024. But the media didn’t have to speculate about why Nvidia’s CEO brought some of the biggest names in the computer industry here. He has previously said he would meet with the CEOs of Nvidia’s supply chain partners to thank them for what they have helped build Nvidia, and this catered event will likely be the culmination of that promise.
Outside the restaurant, Taiwanese media interviewed the CEO of Nvidia and the chairman of TSMC. “We are honored to supply you with chips and be your partner for over 20 years,” CC Wei told Jensen. “On behalf of our friends in the restaurant, thank you for bringing our business to Taiwan.”
Regarding the partnership between Nvidia and TSMC, Huang said: “My hair was 100% black, and now it’s 100% silver. So without TSMC, Nvidia is obviously not possible.” He added, “Thanks to the PC revolution, Computex came along, and then the world turned to Taiwan. ”, he added. Wei interjected. “Jensen Huang brought it to Taiwan, remember.” To this, NVIDIA’s CEO replied with a smile, “No way!”
In addition to being industry partners for decades, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and TSMC Chairman CC Wei appear to have developed a friendship rarely seen in the public eye.
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Jensen Huang is one of the richest people on the planet, but what sets him apart from other Silicon Valley billionaires is how approachable he is to people. For example, he was spotted eating street food in Vietnam and visiting a LAN party in Hanoi in late 2023, and he is behaving in much the same way during this visit to Taiwan as he visited a night market. I was taking it.
Indeed, when he was dining with industry leaders and saw a crowd waiting for him outside the restaurant, he briefly came out and handed out sausages and sesame bread to people. He also signed some autographs and took pictures with a few lucky fans.
A few lucky children also received a “hongbao” or red envelope containing 1,000 Taiwan dollars or about 30 U.S. dollars from Jensen. Besides monetary value, these gifts are also symbols of love, blessings, and good fortune, which many children expect to receive during Chinese New Year. Such actions endeared Hwang to the people of Taiwan, and led to the rise of “gensanity,” especially since Hwang himself was born in Tainan, Taiwan, although he is also an American citizen.
