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The bosses of rival chip giants Nvidia and AMD are cousins, researcher says
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2023
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The ties between Huang and Su are particularly interesting because Nvidia and AMD are both major US chipmakers with competing products, including in the artificial intelligence space.
Back in 2020, Su also confirmed their relationship at a Consumer Technology Association webinar, saying they are "distant relatives, so some complex second cousin type of thing."
For context, Huang's mother is a sister to Su's grandfather, according to Jean Wu, a former Taiwanese journalist who now researches corporate families.
Huang's aunt and uncle — who were recent migrants to Washington state at the time — sent Jensen and his brother to Oneida Baptist Institute in Kentucky.
Huang cofounded Nvidia in 1993 after working at chip companies LSI Logic and Advanced Micro Devices in a variety of roles.
He saw his fortune soar thanks to the boom in generative AI this year and is now worth around $40 billion, per Bloomberg's Billionaire Index.
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