Huang Renxun’s youth and promise

In 1983, when Jen-Hsun Huang was 20 years old and still working as an ordinary engineer in the Engineering Laboratory of Oregon State University in the United States, he "shamelessly" promised his first girlfriend, Lori, that he would have a girl by the time he was 30. A company of its own. Soon after, Lori became his wife. More than a month before his 30th birthday, Huang Renxun founded NVIDIA with two like-minded engineers. In order to fulfill his promise, he also deliberately set the first day of work on his birthday.

In 1999, NVIDIA launched the world's first graphics processing unit (GPU); since then, the GPU has become another important computing unit in computers that is independent of the CPU (central processing unit). The next year, when the company launched its second-generation GPU, Huang Renxun boldly proposed his "Huang's Law": Nvidia's core strategy is to upgrade its products every six months and double its functionality. At that time, the industry already had another more famous law, which was the "Moore's Law" created by Intel founder Moore: the number of transistors that can be accommodated on a chip doubles every 18 months, and the performance doubles. Compared with "Moore's Law", the technological update speed of "Huang's Law" is 2 times faster.

His "big mouth" has been verified again: Since then, NVIDIA has continued to launch higher-performance GPUs, gradually defeating many competitors and becoming No. 1 in the field of visual computing, while Huang Renxun He also became the youngest billionaire in Silicon Valley.

Today, NVIDIA has grown into a "big" company with revenue of US$3.4 billion and market capitalization of US$7.3 billion, but Huang Renxun still speaks freely and says whatever comes to mind. They don't pay attention to the so-called public relations strategies of large companies, and they are not afraid of angering competitors who are many times more powerful than themselves. At the Intel Information Technology Summit in April 2007, Intel Vice President Kissinger announced that Intel would soon launch the Larrabee architecture that integrates CPU and GPU, and claimed that graphics cards would disappear within two to three years. After hearing the news, Huang Renxun scoffed and gave a long speech at the NVIDIA analyst conference shortly afterwards, "defining" Intel's plan as a joke. "Even if Intel can increase graphics computing power by 10 times in 2010, it will still not be able to match current NVIDIA products." He has always been confident in his field.