{"id":618332,"date":"2026-06-03T05:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618332\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T05:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:27:21","slug":"pay-workers-as-much-as-possible-nvidias-huang-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/618332\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay workers &#8216;as much as possible&#8217;, Nvidia&#8217;s Huang says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/e1bed81e1779098c994b71c44d96e0b1.jpeg\" alt=\"Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers his keynote speech at Computex 2026 in Taipei (I-Hwa Cheng)\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"511\" width=\"768\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers his keynote speech at Computex 2026 in Taipei (I-Hwa Cheng)  \u00b7 I-Hwa Cheng\/AFP\/AFP    <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Companies should pay workers &#8220;as much as possible&#8221;, Nvidia boss Jensen Huang said Tuesday ahead of a trip to South Korea, where Samsung Electronics recently averted a strike by making an agreement on bonuses with its union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Huang, head of the US artificial intelligence hardware giant that is the world&#8217;s most valuable company, was asked about the Samsung dispute at a news conference in Taipei, where a major tech show is taking place this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not an expert in that area,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think people should be paid as much as possible. Ask my employees &#8212; literally, I do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;I pay my employees as much as I can,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But that&#8217;s just what I do. It doesn&#8217;t make this right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The AI boom has driven Nvidia&#8217;s stock price up more than 1,170 percent over the past five years, making many employees holding stock options millionaires practically overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Samsung, which makes memory chips essential for AI data centres, has also seen its value and profits soar as global demand skyrockets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">That has fuelled frustration among staff, and under the union deal around 60 percent of Samsung&#8217;s domestic workforce is eligible to receive a bonus of roughly $330,000 this year, based on a market estimate of operating profit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Huang is due to arrive in South Korea on Friday and will reportedly meet with companies including SK Group and Hyundai to discuss robotics and so-called &#8220;physical AI&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">He will also appear on one of the country&#8217;s most popular TV talk shows, &#8220;You Quiz on the Block&#8221;, and is expected to feast on Korean barbecue with the leaders of the country&#8217;s top tech firms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">On Monday, before the start of Taiwan&#8217;s Computex expo, Nvidia unveiled a powerful laptop chip for Windows machines, staking its claim in the market for next-generation PCs integrated with AI tech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The move challenges the likes of Apple, AMD and Intel &#8212; whose CEO Lip-Bu Tan is due to speak Tuesday at Computex &#8212; in the consumer PC domain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Huang said Tuesday that\u00a0Nvidia is &#8220;supply constrained&#8221; although &#8220;we have enough supply for very robust growth&#8221;, referring to the gamut of materials used to make computer chips, from silicon wafers to advanced memory components.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Taiwan is home to hardware production giants TSMC and Foxconn, and last week Huang said Nvidia would increase investment there to $150 billion a year, up from $100 billion, to &#8220;fuel an incredible ecosystem here&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Opening Computex on Tuesday, Taiwan&#8217;s President Lai Ching-te said that rising international investment reflects the island&#8217;s &#8220;technological strength, industrial efficiency, and the trust built up in our democratic system&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">kaf-joy-cdl\/tc\/abs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers his keynote speech at Computex 2026 in Taipei (I-Hwa Cheng) \u00b7 I-Hwa Cheng\/AFP\/AFP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,210200,170938,3352,30608,11998,86,56,54,55,136552],"class_list":["post-618332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-i-hwa-cheng","tag-keynote-speech","tag-nvidia","tag-samsung-electronics","tag-south-korea","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world39s-most-valuable-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}