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Mobbed by fans, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sparks ‘Jensanity’ during Taiwan visit

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang poses for a selfie with members of the media at COMPUTEX forum in Taipei, Taiwan June 4, 2024. REUTERS/Ann Wang

Mr Jensen Huang (in black jacket) posing for photos with members of the media at the Computex exhibition in Taipei on June 4.

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It is early evening and a queue has already begun to form in front of a humble fruit stand in Taipei’s Tonghua Night Market, even though most vendors are still setting up their stalls.

There is a reason for the surge in the stall’s popularity, and it is called the “Jensen Huang effect”, where anything that the co-founder and chief executive of US chipmaker Nvidia touches instantly becomes hot property. 

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