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Nvidia’s Jen-Hsun Huang on the adoption of VR, self-driving cars, and deep learning

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The PC industry is slowing, but graphics chip maker Nvidia blew past Wall Street estimates for its second fiscal quarter. Jen-Hsun Huang, the colorful chief executive of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Nvidia, said in an interview with GamesBeat that the performance was helped by the smooth launch of the company’s next-generation graphics architecture, dubbed Pascal.

Nvidia launched four Pascal-based graphics processing units (GPUs) during the quarter, with a product slate that included a 15-billion-transistor deep learning chip. And Nvidia skirted the PC industry’s woes by focusing on more targeted markets, including gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and automotive electronics.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.