Instead Of Lowering GPU Prices, Former NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Reportedly Financed AI Startups To Absorb Excess Silicon, Shattering The Shortage Perception
AI-generated summary Findings indicate that former NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang used the company balance sheet to finance AI startups and datacenter buildouts to absorb over-ordered semiconductor shipments from TSMC. The Wall Street Journal reported that an August 2026 confrontation between Huang and interim CEO Colette Kress involved scaling down signed guarantee caps for OpenAI compute.