These days, wherever Jensen Huang goes, crowds chant his name and jostle for selfies and autographs.
He’s not your typical celebrity — instead, the 61-year-old electrical engineer is the chief executive of Nvidia, a chip powerhouse whose reputation Passed $3tn (£2.3tn).Briefly overtaking Apple as the second most valuable company in the world, before falling back.
„He’s really being treated like a rock star,” says tech analyst Bob O’Donnell. „Jensen sees this opportunity to build at Nvidia. He’s relishing the moment.”
His new-found status, along with an embossed $9,000 Tom Ford biker jacket, was on display this week at Computex in Taiwan — the annual tech conference that draws the world’s biggest companies to the island.
Born in Taiwan, Mr Huang left at the age of five, posed for countless pictures and drew his name on top of a woman at the conference, wondering aloud if it was a „good idea”. It was, in the words of the local media, pure „Gensanity”.
US regulators are reportedly planning to open an investigation into tech giants including Nvidia over its dominance in the AI industry.
The interest sparked by Mr Huang was not lost on his peers – Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded to a social media follower who did not know who Mr Huang was, describing him as “Taylor Swift, but for technology”.