Highest honor in semiconductor industry: Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang wins Robert Noyce Award

According to official news from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will be awarded the Robert N. Noyce Award, which symbolizes the highest honor in the semiconductor industry.

SIA presents the Noyce Award annually to recognize a leader who has made outstanding contributions to the semiconductor industry in terms of technology or public policy, and Huang will accept the award at the SIA Awards Dinner on November 18, 2021.

"Jensen Huang's extraordinary vision and relentless execution have greatly enhanced the semiconductor industry's revolutionary computing and advanced artificial intelligence," said John Neuffer, CEO of SIA. "Jensen Huang's achievements have driven countless innovations from gaming to scientific computing to self-driving cars, and he continues to advance technologies that will change our industry and the world. We are pleased to award Jensen Huang the 2021 Robert Noyce Award for his many achievements in advancing semiconductor technology."

“I am honored to receive the 2021 Noyce Medal on behalf of my colleagues at NVIDIA, an award that recognizes their work,” Huang said. “It has been my greatest joy and privilege to grow with the semiconductor and computer industries, which have had such a profound impact on the world. As we enter the era of artificial intelligence, robotics, digital biology and the metaverse, we will see exponential technological advances. There has never been a more exciting or important time to be in the semiconductor and computer industries.”

The Noyce Medal is named in honor of Robert Noyce, a semiconductor industry pioneer, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel Corporation, and one of the co-inventors of the integrated circuit.