Huang: NVIDIA must design hardware 5 to 10 years ahead
Jensen Huang · Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator · Jul 26, 2026 · at 24:25
Jensen Huang explains NVIDIA's hardware engineering timeline and how designing systems for agentic workloads requires anticipating compute architectures years in advance.
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“We kind of have to live in the future five to 10 years because it takes three or so years just to build a system. It takes a couple of years to ramp it up and you're dealing and you would like them to be able to use the computer for 10 years after.”
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