Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is one of the tech industry’s longest-serving chief executives, leading the chipmaker since cofounding it in 1993. Now he’s the recipient of a long-standing technology award: the IEEE Medal of Honor, established by a predecessor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1917.

Connect X9 (1.6 TB/s bandwidth), Bluefield 4 DPU (offloads storage/security), NVLink 6 switch (scales 72 GPUs as one), Spectrum X Ethernet Photonix (512 lanes, 200 Gbit optics for AI factories). 15,000 engineer-years.

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Huang is being recognized for a lifetime of visionary leadership and pioneering work in accelerated computing, which has propelled NVIDIA to the forefront of technological innovation. This joins Huang's other recent honors including the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering,

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