The award specifically honours Huang and NVIDIA’s contribution of advanced technologies, to the technological fields of gaming and science. The latter including the medical field and self-driving cars. The latter being driven by NVIDIA’s efforts in pushing its AI technologies across the world.
As a quick rundown, Huang first made his bones as a microprocessor designer at AMD. Years later, he left the company and founded NVIDIA with co-founders Curtis Priem and Chris Malachowsky, and remains the CEO and president of the company today. (Source: NVIDIA)