Nvidia benefited from the AI wave, the stock price soared to a new high, Nvidia's global AI chip market share is as high as 9%, CEO Jensen Huang is known as the godfather of AI, and was also elected as an academician of the American Academy of Engineering, adding a new title to it.
According to foreign media reports, being elected as an academician of the National Academy of Engineering is one of the highest professional honors for experts in the field of engineering, mainly to recognize the significant contributions made by the selected candidates in engineering research, practice, education, etc., or the pioneering work made in emerging fields of technology and significant contributions in the traditional engineering field, as well as those who have made innovative contributions to the development and implementation of engineering education.
According to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced the list of new academicians on Wednesday (7th), Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is among them, because of its use of high-performance graphics processing units to promote the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. It is understood that in 1983, Huang worked as a chip designer at AMD Semiconductor Co., Ltd., mainly developing CPUs, and after working for two years, he moved to LSI Logic in 1985 and stayed for eight years, and then founded Huida in 1993.
By 2006, Nvidia launched a parallel computing platform and programming model CUDA, through GPU to achieve efficient computing in multiple fields, providing support for the development of artificial intelligence, at present, Nvidia issued a collection of dragon cards to share millions of cash AI chips are popular all over the world, loved by the technology industry, CEO Jensen Huang also has a lot of nicknames, such as Lao Huang, leather knifeman, also known as the godfather of AI, the godfather of semiconductors, and now has a new title Academician Huang.