“TSMC offered the CEO position to Jensen Huang in 2013…but was rejected.”

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Ahead of ‘Computex 2024’ last June, Quanta CEO Lee Lam (from left), NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, and TSMC founder Maurice Chang met at an evening market in Taiwan (Photo = X, Aeris)

It is understood that Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, the world’s Most worthy company, was chosen because the CEO of Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer TSMC 10 years ago. Nonetheless, CEO Hwang rejected this and was in a position to grow NVIDIA into what it’s today.

Business Week, a Taiwanese semiconductor weekly magazine, recently reported through

It is understood that 2013 was a time when the founding father of Chang, who was 82 years old on the time, was in search of a successor after securing Apple as a serious customer.

He reviewed two options: appointing an outsider with a track record of success or promoting an internal person, and CEO Hwang was chosen because the primary recruit. At the moment, NVIDIA had not grow to be as big an organization because it is now.

Nonetheless, CEO Hwang reportedly refused this. As an alternative, it announced an aggressive expansion plan that 12 months to further grow the corporate, which accounted for 60% of world GPU presidents.

Consequently, TSMC appointed CC Wei and Mark Liu as co-CEOs, and founder Chang retired from his current position in 2018.

After all, each firms have enjoyed success since then. Consequently of Nvidia’s concentrate on AI and data centers, it has now ranked first in market capitalization on this planet, surpassing Apple and Microsoft. Particularly, with heightened expectations following the US presidential election, the corporate is near becoming the primary company in history with a market cap of $4 trillion (about 5,580 trillion won).

TSMC, the world’s leading foundry company, also reported a 54.2% surge in performance over the previous 12 months in its third quarter performance report last month.

Meanwhile, it is just not known whether this book will likely be published in English or other languages.

Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com

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