Make New York Post a Preferred Source 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.
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. The filing doesn’t break out the cost of home security.
In fiscal 2023, when Nvidia disclosed that expense separately, it reported spending $565,305 on residential security alone.
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.
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. Nvidia’s board said it had no reason to believe company secrets or national security had been compromised.
President Trump defended Huang that night, calling him an “honorable guy.”
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. He later attended a Kentucky boarding school, where one of his chores was scrubbing toilets.
After his family settled near Portland, Oregon, he took a job washing dishes at Denny’s at 15 and returned to work there during the summers.
At Oregon State University, Huang met Lori Mills when they were assigned to be lab partners in electrical engineering. They moved to San Jose after graduation. Their first house had three bedrooms and about 1,500 square feet, according to the Wall Street Journal. They sold it for $185,000 in 1988 and paid $338,000 for a four-bedroom home nearby.
Denny’s figured into Huang’s career a second time. He and fellow engineers Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem discussed the idea for Nvidia at the restaurant and founded the company in 1993.
Its early focus was graphics for video games and multimedia. Nvidia went public in 1999, and the Huangs sold their second San Jose house for $500,000 in 2002.
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. 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.
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.
In 2004, the Huangs paid $7.5 million for property in Wailea, on Maui’s south shore. The contemporary house was completed around 2008 and has seven bedrooms across nearly 8,000 square feet. 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.
The San Francisco mansion went on the market for $40 million and drew multiple bidders, the listing brokerage told SocketSite.
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.
The buyer was Riva LLC, which the Journal linked to the Huangs through the tax lawyer who manages their family foundation’s finances.
The roughly 11,400-square-foot limestone house took nearly four years to build, its developer told the Journal. A curved roof tops the seven-bedroom mansion, which was marketed with an elevator, a gym, an outdoor kitchen and two wine rooms.
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and oil heir Gordon Getty were among the wealthy names on the same stretch.
