Jensen Huang celebrates Lunar New Year with Nvidia employees in Shanghai
CEO of world’s most valuable company receives rock-star welcome as Beijing appears ready to allow imports of the H200 GPU to resume
Huang received a rock-star welcome when he joined Nvidia’s annual Lunar New Year celebration, according to two employees who asked not to be named as they were not authorised to speak to the media. Huang gave a speech and handed out tangerines that he bought at a market earlier in the day, while staff members rushed to get his autograph, one employee said.
Huang is “celebrating Chinese New Year with our local employees in China”, an Nvidia spokesperson told the Post on Sunday, without elaborating on his agenda.
The latest move came as Beijing is expected to allow imports of the company’s H200, its second most powerful GPU, after temporarily holding the chips at the border.
The 62-year-old Huang began his latest trip to China earlier this week, after finishing his visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He toured the chipmaker’s Shanghai office and met with staff to review Nvidia’s milestones and future product pipelines, Tencent Holdings’ news portal reported on Friday.