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Nvidia’s CEO discusses AI dangers, Donald Trump, the Nintendo Switch, and more

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says that Nvidia is in the midst of a transition from being a graphics chip company to an artificial-intelligence platform maker. The company still powers graphics chips in laptops and gaming PCs with virtual reality headsets. But it is also supplying the computing horsepower for deep learning neural networks, self-driving cars, and upcoming devices, such as the Nintendo Switch game console.

I caught up with Huang after Nvidia reported impressive numbers for its third fiscal quarter results on Thursday. But I decided to use my short time with him talking about the important stuff.

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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.