Over the last few months we have seen how NVIDIA has managed to become one of the most important companies in the world, and thanks to the advances they have made in terms of AI, its value in the market has managed to surpass that of Apple, but its CEOJensen Huang, could have led 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 sector, but ended up rejecting the offer to continue with NVIDIA.
There are a large number of companies that have a CEO who has gone through various companies before becoming the strategic leader that can be found today, but in this case, NVIDIA It has only had one CEO since it was founded, Jensen Huang. But the story of the founder of NVIDIA has not remained 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, something that could have changed the course of both companies as we know them, if it had not been for rejecting the offer.
In 2013 Jensen Huang could have become the CEO of TSMC
The technological history of recent years has had a series of quite large turbulences, largely affected by the economic crises that have occurred worldwide, and the fact that the CEO of NVIDIA could have led TSMC It is directly related to one of the biggest crises we have seen. As we well know, during the period of 2008 and 2009 there was a crisis that left a large number of economic problems, something that many companies noticed a lot, one of them TSMC, which had a large number of problems during this time with the 40 nm, as well as the staff adjustments that had to be made due to the crisis.
In 2009, Morris changthe founder of TSMChad to dismiss Rick Tsai, the company’s head from 2005 to 2009, to take the reins and try to prevent it from going under due to the problems we have mentioned. In the five-year period that he took control, until 2013, he managed to satisfy the future demand for semiconductors, in addition to making Apple his main customer, but now at 82 years old, he began to consider his succession plan, considering two options, Jensen Huang, who controlled 60% of the global GPU market, or directly promote someone from within the company.
For this reason, he tried to convince the CEO of NVIDIA for TSMC to lead, but as we can well imagine Jensen Huang I was not interested, since in 2013 NVIDIA launched Kepler graphics, expanded the Tegra range, launched its Shield device and began to expand into data centers, meaning that the move was going 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, making Morris Chang have to resort to plan B, appointing CC Wei and Mark Liu as executive coordinators.
