South Korean Media Highlights Jensen Huang and Two Others, Praising Taiwanese Semiconductor Giants for Reshaping Global Tech

(Seoul, 3rd, CNA綜合外電) On the eve of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's anticipated visit to South Korea, the Seoul Economic Daily focused on him, AMD CEO Lisa Su, and TSMC founder Morris Chang, pointing out that globally renowned semiconductor business leaders from Taiwan are writing an indelible page in history.

According to the Seoul Economic Daily, Jensen Huang, who leads NVIDIA, the world's most valuable company by market capitalization, is known as the "Napoleon of the semiconductor industry." He was born in Tainan, Taiwan in 1963, immigrated to the United States at age 9, and founded NVIDIA at age 30, a company specializing in the design and development of graphics processing units (GPUs).

Three years after founding NVIDIA, Huang received a letter from the late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee, which read: "I hope to receive your assistance in the fields of high-speed networks and video games." This initiated a long-term partnership between Samsung Electronics and NVIDIA.

Lisa Su was also born in Taiwan. She leads AMD in its competition with NVIDIA and Intel, elevating AMD to the second-largest giant in the GPU industry.

The Seoul Economic Daily noted that Jensen Huang is a distant relative of Lisa Su (Huang is actually Su's maternal uncle), and Taiwanese people often refer to them as "two geniuses born in Taiwan."

Lisa Su moved to New York at age 3. She majored in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and later worked at Texas Instruments, where she rose quickly through the ranks.

After joining IBM, she served as head of the semiconductor research and development center, leading the replacement of aluminum with copper as the interconnect material inside chips, an achievement considered a major milestone in rewriting semiconductor history.

Lisa Su later took the helm at AMD when its credit rating had fallen to junk status, and she led the company's transformation, propelling it into the ranks of top-tier enterprises.

TSMC, the world's largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, is revered in Taiwan as the "Sacred Mountain Protecting the Nation." Its founder, Morris Chang, was born in Zhejiang Province, China in 1931 and immigrated to the United States to escape war.

He completed his education at MIT and worked at Texas Instruments. At the sincere invitation of the Taiwanese government and with a promise of investment, he moved to Taiwan at age 54 and later founded TSMC. Jensen Huang once admitted, "Without TSMC, there would be no NVIDIA."

Jensen Huang is scheduled to visit South Korea later this week. He will meet with leaders from major business groups including Samsung Electronics, SK hynix, Hyundai Motor, LG Electronics, and Doosan to discuss cooperation opportunities in the semiconductor and Physical AI sectors.

The Seoul Economic Daily concluded that at a time when the industry is entering an AI transformation period, no single company can succeed alone. It is anticipated that the talks between Jensen Huang and South Korean business leaders will further deepen semiconductor supply chain cooperation. (Editor: Hong Peiying) 1150603