Pay workers ‘as much as possible’, Nvidia chief says

Jensen Huang comments on groundbreaking Samsung bonus agreement with its union

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers his keynote speech at Computex 2026 in Taipei on Tuesday. (Photo: AFP)

TAIPEI - Companies should pay workers “as much as possible”, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said on Tuesday ahead of a trip to South Korea, where Samsung Electronics recently averted a strike by making an agreement on huge profit-based bonuses with its union.Huang, head of the US artificial intelligence hardware giant that is the world’s most valuable company with a capitalisation of $5 trillion, was asked about the Samsung dispute at a news conference in Taipei, where a major tech show is taking place this week.

“I’m not an expert in that area,” he said. “I think people should be paid as much as possible. Ask my employees — literally, I do that.”

“I pay my employees as much as I can,” he added. “But that’s just what I do. It doesn’t make this right.”