Born 1963 Taiwan, grew up Oregon. Oregon State EE, Stanford MS. Co-founded NVIDIA 1993. NVIDIA Ventures (NVentures) invested in almost every major AI/robotics company and joined Physical Intelligence's $11B+ round as a new backer (Mar 2026). In Jun 2026 NVIDIA selected Unitree as a humanoid-robot platform for researchers as the Chinese startup moved toward IPO. The godfather of AI compute — every robot and AI model runs on his GPUs.