TAIPEI: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised and evenly cajoled his main Taiwanese suppliers to provide extra to assist energy sturdy demand for synthetic intelligence (AI), capping a go to to the island of his beginning, the place he has been mobbed by adoring followers at each step.
Talking at an impromptu press convention within the rain outdoors a Taipei restaurant late on Saturday (Jan 31), the place he had hosted suppliers for a “trillion-dollar dinner”, named after the market capitalisation of these corporations attending, Huang mentioned this might be one other good yr for enterprise.
“TSMC must work very onerous this yr as a result of I want numerous wafers,” he mentioned, laughing, referring to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Firm, the world’s largest producer of superior chips utilized in AI purposes.
“TSMC is doing an unimaginable job and so they’re working very, very onerous. We now have numerous demand this yr,” he added after taking footage with a beaming TSMC CEO CC Wei.
“Over the following 10 years, TSMC will doubtless enhance their capability by way more than 100 per cent, and so this can be a very substantial scale-up within the subsequent decade.”
Wei didn’t reply questions from reporters.
Final month, TSMC mentioned capital spending may leap as a lot as 37 per cent this yr to US$56 billion, and would enhance “considerably” in 2028 and 2029 given AI demand.
Huang, who emigrated to the USA as a toddler, is met by a throng of adoring followers wherever he returns to Taiwan. Native media, who consult with him as “the folks’s dad”, breathlessly report on his each transfer.
