Over the past few months we have seen how Nvidia has managed to become one of the most important companies in the world, and thanks to the progress made in terms of AI, its market value has managed to surpass that of Apple, but its CEOJensen Huang, could have directed years ago TSMC. According to the biography of Morris Chang, the founder of TSMCJensen Huang had the opportunity to become the leader of what is now one of the most important companies in the semiconductor industry, but ended up rejecting the offer to continue Nvidia.
There are a large number of companies that have a CEO who went through various companies before becoming the strategic leader we find today, but in this case, Nvidia It has only had one CEO since its creation, Jensen Huang. But the history of the founder of NVIDIA did not remain only in this company, since as we well know, his career is quite long, and there was even a time when he joined forces with TSMC, which could have change the course of both. companies as we know them, if the offer had not been rejected.
In 2013, Jensen Huang could have become CEO of TSMC
The technological history of recent years has seen a series of fairly significant turbulences, largely influenced by the economic crises occurring throughout the world and by the fact that CEO of Nvidia could have led TSMC This is directly linked to one of the greatest crises we have ever experienced. As we know well, during the period 2008 and 2009 there was a crisis that left a large number of economic problems, which many companies noticed a lot, including TSMC, which had a large number of problems during this period with the A 40-year process, as well as the personnel adjustments that had to be made due to the crisis.
In 2009, Morris Changthe founder of TSMChad to fire Rick Tsai, director of the company from 2005 to 2009, to take the reins and try to prevent it from going under because of the problems we have mentioned. In the five years he took power, until 2013, he managed to satisfy future demand for semiconductors, in addition to making Apple his main customer, but today, at 82 years old, he began thinking about his succession plan, considering two options, Jensen Huang, who controlled 60% of the global GPU market, or directly promote someone within the company.
It is for this reason that he tried to convince the CEO of Nvidia for TSMC to lead, but as one can well imagine Jensen Huang This did not interest me, because in 2013 NVIDIA launched Kepler graphics, expanded the Tegra line, launched its Shield device and began to expand into data centers, that is, the movement went well for them. For this reason, the decision was quite easy for the current leader of the brand that created the RTX, who decided to stay, forcing Morris Chang to resort to plan B, appointing CC Wei and Mark Liu as executive coordinators.
