An internal post urging the board to consider employee sentiment about Nvidia’s former CEO has drawn more than 1,600 comments, the majority in full support of reinstalling him.
NVidia doesn’t actually make chips, it’s a design shop with TSMC fabbing the silicon. So you’re looking at a wider selection of people who ran big ASIC and CPU design groups. There’s one of those inside Intel, which also does fabrication. Apple, Qualcomm, and others similarly. AMD even (Huang is distantly related to Lisa Su). An AMD-NVidia merger could be a thing of fanfiction if NVidia wasn’t already in enough antitrust trouble. Maybe Huang and Su could even swap places, lol.
I know they don’t make them. I was saying knowing how the chips are manufactured at the engineering level to make sure suppliers are doing things properly is not a skill most CEOs have.
Yeah it’s a niche specialty but Huang isn’t unique in the world in terms of doing that stuff. If I were recruiting his replacement I’d consider hunting the AI teams at Google, Facebook, etc. rather than chip fab stuff.
NVidia doesn’t actually make chips, it’s a design shop with TSMC fabbing the silicon. So you’re looking at a wider selection of people who ran big ASIC and CPU design groups. There’s one of those inside Intel, which also does fabrication. Apple, Qualcomm, and others similarly. AMD even (Huang is distantly related to Lisa Su). An AMD-NVidia merger could be a thing of fanfiction if NVidia wasn’t already in enough antitrust trouble. Maybe Huang and Su could even swap places, lol.
They’re first cousins, once removed.
I know they don’t make them. I was saying knowing how the chips are manufactured at the engineering level to make sure suppliers are doing things properly is not a skill most CEOs have.
Yeah it’s a niche specialty but Huang isn’t unique in the world in terms of doing that stuff. If I were recruiting his replacement I’d consider hunting the AI teams at Google, Facebook, etc. rather than chip fab stuff.