Shawn Knight

The big picture: Nvidia's share value is once again on the rise, boosting CEO Jensen Huang's net worth. According to the latest data from the Forbes 400 list, which ranks the richest people in America, Huang's fortune now sits at $104 billion. That's more than the total worth of fellow chipmaker Intel, whose market cap is currently $96.43 billion.

Nvidia has been at the forefront of the AI revolution since early 2023, and its shareholders have been rewarded accordingly. The company's stock more than tripled in value last year, and the meteoric rise continued into 2024. Values corrected a bit over the summer, but things have been trending upward once again as of late. AI is showing no signs of slowing down, and that is great news for one of leading hardware suppliers.

Forbes has Huang as the 11th richest person in the US. Unsurprisingly, almost everyone in the top 10 has earned their wealth in the technology sector.

Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk remains the richest person in America with a net worth of $244 billion, and his lead is substantial. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is worth around $197 billion – or about $47 billion less than Musk. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg ranks third with a net worth of $181 billion.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who previously held the top spot for several years, now sits in ninth place with a fortune of $107 billion. This past summer, longtime company man Steve Ballmer passed Gates in terms of net worth. Considering Gates has pledged to give away most of his fortune, his fall down the list isn't surprising.

Only two people in the top 10 – investor Warren Buffet and businessman Michael Bloomberg – made their money outside of tech.

Nvidia, meanwhile, remains in a prime position with a market cap of $3.11 trillion. That's good enough for second place among all American companies, trailing only Apple whose value sits at $3.42 trillion. Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon round out the top five with values of $3.09 trillion, $2.05 trillion, and $1.91 trillion, respectively.

Permalink to story:

Jensen Huang's net worth passes Intel's market cap

winjer

He has more money that some small countries.
And if Blackwell sells as much as expected, he'll have even more.

maxxcool7421

I love that he could privately buy Intel.. or what's left of the trash company with just his own money.

opckieran

maxxcool7421 said:
I love that he could privately buy Intel.. or what's left of the trash company with just his own money.

Almost. Usually you have to offer 30-50% over market cap to even enter buyout discussions. Twitter was an exception because its owners knew it was overvalued.

Rapob

That is a nice looking leather jacket.

Rapob · Tuesday at 3:10 AM

maxxcool7421 said:
I love that he could privately buy Intel.. or what's left of the trash company with just his own money.

No he could not. You need to pay closer to 50% more than market cap and also Intel needs to be willing to sell in the first place, which they are not. Their stocks increased 20% in a month and they will soon rebound as both Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake looks solid + Next gen enterprise stuff incoming as well.

AMD has been closer to bankruptcy than Intel is now, many times in the past.

poohbear

Rapob said:
No he could not. You need to pay closer to 50% more than market cap and also Intel needs to be willing to sell in the first place, which they are not. Their stocks increased 20% in a month and they will soon rebound as both Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake looks solid + Next gen enterprise stuff incoming as well.

AMD has been closer to bankruptcy than Intel is now, many times in the past.

but don't you think they missed the boat? Everything is GPU based now, and intel has no GPU.

Rapob

poohbear said:
but don't you think they missed the boat? Everything is GPU based now, and intel has no GPU.

Maybe you should look up Lunar Lake reviews then, Intel has the best performance per watt in mobile and handhelds, beating AMD.

Xe2 will come in the form of Battlemage for Desktop soon.

AMD should be worried, as they left high-end market and now competes in low to mid only.

Could easily see Battlemage compete with RDNA4's or at least 3 out of 4 SKUs.

HardReset

Rapob said:
Maybe you should look up Lunar Lake reviews then, Intel has the best performance per watt in mobile and handhelds, beating AMD.

Um yeah, against old AMD stuff that came out 16 months ago? AMD is scared

Rapob

HardReset said:
Um yeah, against old AMD stuff that came out 16 months ago? AMD is scared

I think they are. After all they lost the Switch 2 deal because of bad performance per watt and mediocre upscaling - FSR is even worse than Intel XeSS at this point.

This is why Sony built PSSR in-house, FSR was not good enough.

HardReset

Rapob said:
I think they are. After all they lost the Switch 2 deal because of bad performance per watt and mediocre upscaling - FSR is even worse than Intel XeSS at this point.

This is why Sony built PSSR in-house, FSR was not good enough.

Nintendo wanted Switch 2 to be backwards compatible, so there was not really competition.

Hardware on Sony consoles is built by AMD, FYI. Also very unlikely Sony wanted to built total custom solution, rather they used something AMD already had planned on RDNA4.

Rapob

HardReset said:
Nintendo wanted Switch 2 to be backwards compatible, so there was not really competition.

Hardware on Sony consoles is built by AMD, FYI. Also very unlikely Sony wanted to built total custom solution, rather they used something AMD already had planned on RDNA4.

AMD was never a contender for Switch 2 due to bad upscaling and mediocre performance per watt. PPW is the most important factor in handhelds. Even Intel Lunar Lake beats AMD here.

PSSR is built in house by Sony. AMD had no part in it.
Sony tested FSR and found it too bad. Then developed something better.

RDNA4 has nothing to do with PSSR. Maybe you should up on PSSR.

HardReset

Rapob said:
AMD was never a contender for Switch 2 due to bad upscaling and mediocre performance per watt. PPW is the most important factor in handhelds. Even Intel Lunar Lake beats AMD here.

PSSR is built in house by Sony. AMD had no part in it.
Sony tested FSR and found it too bad. Then developed something better.

RDNA4 has nothing to do with PSSR. Maybe you should up on PSSR.

How about some facts about Switch2 PPW? Lunar Lake barely beats 16 months old AMD stuff. AMDs next mobile CPU will again beat Intel.

Ah, "in house". Still, SOC is AMD design. You want me to believe Sony made extra chip to handle PSSR? Bwahahaha.

And why not? Why would Sony develop something totally new if RDNA already has it?

Shawn Knigh

Posts: 15,462 +193

winjer

Posts: 742 +3,565

maxxcool7421

Posts: 474 +709

opckieran

Posts: 332 +556

Rapob

Posts: 136 +37

Rapob

Posts: 136 +37

poohbear

Posts: 799 +687

Rapob

Posts: 136 +37

HardReset

Posts: 2,525 +2,091

Rapob

Posts: 136 +37

HardReset

Posts: 2,525 +2,091

Rapob

Posts: 136 +37

HardReset

Posts: 2,525 +2,091

Similar threads