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Huang donates $30 million to build whoop-ass building

With his name on it
Wed Sep 17 2008, 00:59

TO CELEBRATE HIS own greatness, Nvidia’s almighty CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang has pledged $30 million to have a building named after him in Stanford University.

Huang, who got his master's in electrical engineering at Stanford back in 1992, will be donating the money to the Jen-Hsun Huang School of Engineering Centre.

The building, which is under construction, is 130,000-square-feet and should be finished by the first half of 2010. [Give or take a bump or two - Ed.]

"The School of Engineering at Stanford is a major source of intellectual energy for Silicon Valley and beyond," gushed Huang as he patted himself vigorously on the back.

He said he was proud to help Stanford build a place that “encourages people to come together to create the next generation of knowledge and technology."

Jim Plummer, Stanford’s dean of the School of Engineering, trumpeted Huang's accomplishment in turning Nvidia, into, "a leading technology company.”

Erecting huge structures in his own name isn’t the only thing Huang has been doing at Stanford. His firm recently helped found a “Pervasive Parallelism Lab” at the university which lets software engineers noodle about on multi-processor computer systems.

As he pocketed the cheque, Plummer was said to have described Huang's Nvidia as, “a good example of the kind of engineering entrepreneurship and leadership the school hopes to instill in students.”

"Our CEO's emotonal," a spokesperson said. µ

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Sucks Don't it?

Doesn't it suck when you see what you could've been if you hadn't squandered it away? 

BTW, for the Fanboi up there, maybe we'll cross paths online and instead of fraggin' 'ya, I'll just run up behind 'ya and scratch 'ya with the knife. 

We'll see who has a meltdown then. hahaha

posted by : Jack, 01 October 2008 Complain about this comment
Time has not helped

I had the (mis)fortune of knowing Mister Huang in college. It's pretty obvious that his arrogance and ego-centric attitude hasn't ebbed any from what I remember from back then.

posted by : Ghost_from_the_past, 18 September 2008 Complain about this comment
Thanks Mr. Huang!!

As I install my Palit Radeon HD 3850 Super PCI-e card and go butt kicking your customers online who are using your melting GPU's I will be glad I didn't attend your school of botched Engineering at Standford. LOL!!!!

posted by : Jack_Frost, 18 September 2008 Complain about this comment
Dishonest Nvidia

Instead of spending money on marketing gimmicks, Nvidia should spend money on fixing the harware and software bugs in its products. Also goes to customers to not support the company until it offers lifetime warranty and recalls its defective and unreliable chips.

posted by : Sam, 17 September 2008 Complain about this comment
careful with your money

Spend it while you got I guess, as Nvidia flushes itself the revenue stream will be mopped up by warranty claims I guess.

Perhaps he should have invested more heavily into chip packaging, design and manufacturing coupled with a detailed long term test strategy.

Nevermind hindsight is always 20/20

posted by : 99flake, 17 September 2008 Complain about this comment
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