'People's dad' Jensen Huang praises, pushes Nvidia suppliers on mobbed visit

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang praised and lightly cajoled his major Taiwanese suppliers to produce more to help power strong demand for AI, capping a visit to the island of his birth, where he has been mobbed by adoring fans at every step.



Speaking at an impromptu press conference in the rain outside a Taipei restaurant late on Saturday, where he had hosted suppliers for a "trillion-dollar dinner", named after the market capitalisation of those firms attending, Huang said this would be another good year for business.



"TSMC needs to work very hard this year because I need a lot of wafers," he said, laughing, referring to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world's largest producer of advanced chips used in artificial-intelligence applications.



"TSMC is doing an incredible job and they're working very, very hard. We have a lot of demand this year," he added after taking pictures with a beaming TSMC CEO C.C. Wei.



"Over the next 10 years, TSMC will likely increase their capacity by much more than 100%, and so this is a very substantial scale-up in the next decade."