It has some inertia, but without Huang the company will start to slide into oblivion. The thing they should be most worried about is his tactics for driving up prices and the company's stock price. That could start to haunt (and hurt) them pretty quickly.

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unethical_ban a day ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not sure about that. Granted, I know noting about his day to day impact on the operation of the company. But, assuming he has run a tight ship and he has hired a number of competent people below him, nVidia will stay relevant for a long time. AMD might rise and challenge their dominance on AI compute. However they're on a cash cow one way or the other for a number of years.

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aucisson_masque a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Huang didn’t invent llm, he merely benefits from it because he was at the right place at the right time.

He didn’t do anything incredible.

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solyin a day ago | parent [-]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50418749

3dfx, Matrox, S3, ATI, and Cirrus were also in the right place at the right time, but there's a reason we're here talking about Nvidia and not them. How much was Jensen vs things out of his control though, few people will ever know.

	▲	rob74 20 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah, and that reason is that Nvidia managed to achieve vendor lock-in with CUDA - which is not generally regarded as a good thing, but it was certainly good for Nvidia.
	▲	paulryanrogers 19 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Survivorship bias is another explanation. NVDA wasn't worth nearly so much before AI took off. Arguably ATI is still around, wedded to AMD.