CEO Jensen Huang’s net worth plunged $18 billion Monday as the chipmaker’s stock continues to free fall. Huang was worth $106.3 billion as of Monday morning, down nearly 15%, according to Forbes Real-Time Billionaires list.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) and US-based artificial intelligence (AI) chip designer Nvidia Corp have partnered with each other on silicon photonics development, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) said.

Nvidia ( NVDA, Financials) CEO Jensen Huang will not attend the Jan. 20 inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, according to a Friday Reuters report. Rather, he intends to take part in Lunar New Year festivities with Asian staff members, according the paper.

The recent AI advances by Chinese upstart DeepSeek could be the beginning of a potential nightmare scenario that Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Jensen Huang has been worrying about since the chip maker’s meteoric rise.

US chip giant Nvidia suffered a record wipeout on Monday after Chinese startup DeepSeek upended the tech sector — and the rout cost its CEO Jensen Huang more than $20 billion in a single day. DeepSeek said it built its new AI model in just two months for less than $6 million – a fraction of the training costs of its US rivals – and without access to Nvidia’s powerful,