As Nvidia’s board investigates whether Jensen Huang was targeted by a foreign intelligence effort, the chipmaker’s filings show what it was already spending to protect its CEO — including at home.
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Nvidia spent nearly $4 million in fiscal 2026 on services for Huang that included home security, protection during personal travel, consulting and drivers, according to its May proxy filing.
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The filing doesn’t break out the cost of home security.
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In fiscal 2023, when Nvidia disclosed that expense separately, it reported spending $565,305 on residential security alone.
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Nvidia → disclose → security
Huang and his wife, Lori, went from a three-bedroom starter home in San Jose to a six-bedroom Silicon Valley estate, a gated Maui retreat and a $38 million mansion on San Francisco’s Billionaires’ Row overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.
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The couple bought those three properties between 2003 and 2017, after Nvidia went public.
Huang told employees Sunday that he had been unfaithful to his wife.
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Nvidia’s board said it had no reason to believe company secrets or national security had been compromised.
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secrets → say → reason
Born in Taiwan, Huang spent part of his childhood in Thailand before his parents sent him and his older brother to live with relatives in Washington State.
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He later attended a Kentucky boarding school, where one of his chores was scrubbing toilets.
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At Oregon State University, Huang met Lori Mills when they were assigned to be lab partners in electrical engineering.
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They moved to San Jose after graduation.
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They → move → graduation
Their first house had three bedrooms and about 1,500 square feet, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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They sold it for $185,000 in 1988 and paid $338,000 for a four-bedroom home nearby.
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Denny’s figured into Huang’s career a second time.
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Denny → figure → career
He and fellow engineers Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem discussed the idea for Nvidia at the restaurant and founded the company in 1993.
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Nvidia went public in 1999, and the Huangs sold their second San Jose house for $500,000 in 2002.
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A Silicon Valley estate and a Maui getaway
The next year, the couple paid $6.9 million for a newly built house in Los Altos Hills, about 15 miles west of Nvidia’s Santa Clara headquarters.
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With six bedrooms and more than 7,000 square feet, it was more than three times the size of the San Jose house they had just sold.
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The town has kept some of its rural character through zoning rules that generally require about an acre or more for new homes and limit two-story construction on hilltops and ridges.
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In 2004, the Huangs paid $7.5 million for property in Wailea, on Maui’s south shore.
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The contemporary house was completed around 2008 and has seven bedrooms across nearly 8,000 square feet.
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It’s one of 14 homes in a gated enclave that spans 10.5 oceanfront acres within Wailea Resort, where the wider community includes golf courses, hotels and shops.
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A record on Billionaires’ Row
The San Francisco mansion went on the market for $40 million and drew multiple bidders, the listing brokerage told SocketSite.
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Its review of deed and tax records put the final price at $38 million in 2017, topping the city’s previous record of $35 million for a house on the same stretch of Broadway.
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The buyer was Riva LLC, which the Journal linked to the Huangs through the tax lawyer who manages their family foundation’s finances.
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The roughly 11,400-square-foot limestone house took nearly four years to build, its developer told the Journal.
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A curved roof tops the seven-bedroom mansion, which was marketed with an elevator, a gym, an outdoor kitchen and two wine rooms.
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