Nvidia searching for site in Taiwan: Jensen Huang

Las Vegas, Jan. 7 (CNA) Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) stopped short Tuesday of confirming that his company was going to set up an overseas headquarters in Taiwan but did say the company needed to expand its office space there.

"We have a lot of employees in Taiwan today, and the building is too small, so I have to do something about that...We're looking for real estate," he said at a press event at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas when asked about the headquarters idea.

He added that he could "announce something" at Computex Taipei, which is slated for May 20-23.

Huang had previously teased the idea of building a headquarters in Taiwan in June 2024 during last year's Computex, without providing any further details.

Regarding Nvidia's collaboration with Taiwan-based smartphone IC designer MediaTek Inc. on the GB10 superchip, Huang said the two companies have collaborated in many fields, including automotive chips for self-driving cars.

"The GB10 chip for Project Digits was architected together with them," he said, adding that the CPU and GPU are "memory coherent" and that the chip performance and low power performance are "great."

Project Digits is aimed at building a personal AI supercomputer by creating a miniaturized version of the company's DGX-1 deep learning system, which he featured at the end of his CES keynote speech Tuesday.

The computer, he said, could be available in May.

In addition to visiting Taiwan during the Computex show, Huang said his next trip to Taiwan would be to attend the Lunar New Year year-end party of the Nvidia Taiwan office, which is scheduled for Jan. 17.

It was an annual tradition for him that he looked forward to, he said.

With CES 2025 being held just two weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, trade issues were also in the spotlight.

Responding to media concerns about a potential trade war, Huang said he was not concerned and "trusted that the administration will make the right choices," while asserting that Nvidia will "do the best we can to help customers."

He added that he would not rule out the possibility of meeting Trump in person.