Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been busy catching up with some of the biggest names in tech. After meeting Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong and Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chairman Euisun Chun at Kkanbu Chicken over fried chicken and beer, Huang continued his networking tour in Taipei.
On Friday, he met TSMC CEO C.C. Wei over a hotpot dinner, leading to a lot of excitement among netizens.
While in Taiwan, Huang attended TSMC’s annual sports day, where he discussed Nvidia’s increasing demand for chips driven by the artificial intelligence boom.
“The business is very strong, and it’s growing month by month, stronger and stronger,” Huang told reporters in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Jensen Hung of $nvda having hot pot dinner with $TSM CEO in Taiwan following fried chicken dinner with CEOs of Samsung and Hyundai in Korea pic.twitter.com/4jmwMTqlOj
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He stated that the support from Nvidia’s AI memory chip suppliers, noting that SK Hynix Inc., Samsung Electronics Co., and Micron Technology Inc. have all scaled up “tremendous capacity” to meet the company’s growing needs.
“Nvidia builds the GPU (graphics processing units), but we also build the CPU (central processing units), the networking, and the switches, and so there are a lot of chips associated with Blackwell,” he said at the event hosted by Nvidia’s long-time partner, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., in Hsinchu.
Wei confirmed that Huang had requested more wafers to support Nvidia’s production, but the exact numbers were kept confidential.
‘A rapport-forming genius’
Netizens on X hailed Huang over this gesture. A user noted, “He did a good job of optimizing by country. A rapport-forming genius. This is why people open their hearts.” Another added, “Really appreciate this guy, hard work and persistence brought him and $NVDA here.”
“That’s my goat,” hailed a netizen. “they cozying up in the small people restaurant,” wrote another, ” “Quite a lineup — NVDA, TSM, Samsung, and Hyundai in one week. That’s some serious alliance-building power moves,” claimed a user.
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