Friday, August 13th 2021
NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang to Receive Prestigious Robert N. Noyce Award
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today announced Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA and a trailblazer in building accelerated computing platforms, is the 2021 recipient of the industry's highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award. SIA presents the Noyce Award annually in recognition of a leader who has made outstanding contributions to the semiconductor industry in technology or public policy. Huang will accept the award at the SIA Awards Dinner on Nov. 18, 2021.
"Jensen Huang's extraordinary vision and tireless execution have greatly strengthened our industry, revolutionized computing, and advanced artificial intelligence," said John Neuffer, SIA president and CEO. "Jensen's accomplishments have fueled countless innovations—from gaming to scientific computing to self-driving cars—and he continues to advance technologies that will transform our industry and the world. We're pleased to recognize Jensen with the 2021 Robert N. Noyce Award for his many achievements in advancing semiconductor technology."
Huang founded NVIDIA in 1993 and has served since its inception as CEO and a member of the board of directors. Starting out in 3D graphics, NVIDIA helped build the gaming market into the world's largest entertainment industry. More recently, NVIDIA ignited modern AI—the next era of computing—with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars.
Huang is a recipient of the IEEE Founder's Medal, the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award, and honorary doctorate degrees from Taiwan's National Chiao Tung University, National Taiwan University, and Oregon State University. In 2019, Harvard Business Review ranked him No. 1 on its list of the world's 100 best-performing CEOs over the lifetime of their tenure. In 2017, he was named Fortune's Businessperson of the Year. Prior to founding NVIDIA, Huang worked at LSI Logic and Advanced Micro Devices. Huang holds a BSEE degree from Oregon State University and an MSEE degree from Stanford University.
"I am honored to receive the 2021 Noyce Award and do so on behalf of my colleagues at NVIDIA, whose body of work this award recognizes," said Huang. "It has been the greatest joy and privilege to have grown up with the semiconductor and computer industries, two that so profoundly impact the world. As we enter the era of AI, robotics, digital biology, and the metaverse, we will see super-exponential technology advances. There's never been a more exciting or important time to be in the semiconductor and computer industries."
The Noyce Award is named in honor of semiconductor industry pioneer Robert N. Noyce, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel Corporation.
"Jensen Huang's extraordinary vision and tireless execution have greatly strengthened our industry, revolutionized computing, and advanced artificial intelligence," said John Neuffer, SIA president and CEO. "Jensen's accomplishments have fueled countless innovations—from gaming to scientific computing to self-driving cars—and he continues to advance technologies that will transform our industry and the world. We're pleased to recognize Jensen with the 2021 Robert N. Noyce Award for his many achievements in advancing semiconductor technology."
Huang is a recipient of the IEEE Founder's Medal, the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award, and honorary doctorate degrees from Taiwan's National Chiao Tung University, National Taiwan University, and Oregon State University. In 2019, Harvard Business Review ranked him No. 1 on its list of the world's 100 best-performing CEOs over the lifetime of their tenure. In 2017, he was named Fortune's Businessperson of the Year. Prior to founding NVIDIA, Huang worked at LSI Logic and Advanced Micro Devices. Huang holds a BSEE degree from Oregon State University and an MSEE degree from Stanford University.
"I am honored to receive the 2021 Noyce Award and do so on behalf of my colleagues at NVIDIA, whose body of work this award recognizes," said Huang. "It has been the greatest joy and privilege to have grown up with the semiconductor and computer industries, two that so profoundly impact the world. As we enter the era of AI, robotics, digital biology, and the metaverse, we will see super-exponential technology advances. There's never been a more exciting or important time to be in the semiconductor and computer industries."
The Noyce Award is named in honor of semiconductor industry pioneer Robert N. Noyce, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel Corporation.
47 Comments on NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang to Receive Prestigious Robert N. Noyce Award
Probably not.
I made a promise this year that no matter how cheap an RTX 30 series card would be, I would consider all of it mining card and go for an RX 6000, especially considering that 6600 XT is perfect for me, though it's also hard to buy...
Yeah he'll get his gpu miners award later.
The fact that Jensen Huang managed to get nVidia to the top by any means necessary and create a near-monopoly in many industry segments means that he's a very effective CEO and deserves praise.
I'm very sorry, I had to do it.
When there's only one player in the industry because that player isn't playing fair, it's no longer really an award, is it?
Up next, the "best current US president of July 2021 award" goes to Joe Biden. Well done for being the only current US president, Joe!
Let me conclude this with the famous sentence by Linus, the creator of Linux, "so, nVIDIA, xxxx you!"
lol
im disguisted with him ever since turing cards performance/price ratio and this gen also and all that during corona world crisis...
praise...him!??
i don't think so
Its supercomputers that gave us current day vaccines. Take a short while to consider whats in those. Nvidia has been using a leading position to keep moving forward. Not something we can attribute to, say, Intel.
As for playing fair, welcome to the world and business. Im not a fan either. But its the reality we ALL cultivate by being part of it. Excess happens everywhere and they show us the current system is at the end of a lifecycle. But we are humans... one upping the next guy is nature. Exoansion and accumulating power is another.
Oooops.
developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-rt-denoiser
Double oooops.
Best,
Liquid Cool
I don't like everything they've done but business is business.
But he has definitely earned it on technical merit and business acumen.
Yeah sure companies don't have other reason than to make money, but there are certain rules, or rather responsibilities to follow. We shouldn't hurt this Earth after all. It will be going to backfire if we don't treat this planet well.