NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang recently attended a dinner with TSMC executives to address potential AI chip supply shortages. AI is the new catchword of 2024 with the PC industry expected to undergo a major change due to its incorporation into desktop and laptop PCs throughout the year. This along with increased AI technology use in the enterprise sector is expected to drive the demand for chips to unprecedented levels and it appears that the NVIDIA CEO wants everyone to know that it, and its supply chain partners, have all the bases covered and are working very hard to prevent shortages.
Per Jensen Huang (via a transcription from Fortune):
“The single greatest challenge in AI, of course, is scaling the capacity of AI,” Huang said before heading into his company’s local annual New Year celebrations. “And so we’re working very hard, TSMC, all of our supply chain partners here, are working very hard to keep up with the demand.”
A video was also posted by Central News Agency of Taiwan in which Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reiterates some of the same comments but provides a warning to folks seeking, well, videos of him in compromising positions online. He jokingly adds (per transcription from Tom’s Hardware), “I hope none of my dancing ever shows up on the Internet,” and “If it shows up on the Internet, please remove it right away. Once I dance, you cannot unsee it.”
His joking was likely regarding some of the other videos/images that have popped up on the internet such as the one where he displays his enthusiasm for Lady Gaga by singing one of her songs. Back on topic with AI, and re-enforcing TSMC’s pivotal role in the future of AI, Huang has also gone on record (per Fortune) that “It’s a rebirth of the computer industry and that’s why Taiwan is so central to that,” and added that “TSMC, the ecosystem of Taiwan system makers are all going to participate in this new era of computing.”