With the AI boom expected to further expand, Taiwan’s tech industry is set to benefit from the island’s close ties with US chip giant Nvidia. TAIPEI: When Jensen Huang visited Taiwan a few months ago in June, he set off a frenzy . Everywhere the CEO of American chip giant Nvidia went, he was mobbed like a rock star. Local media even coined a term for the excitement that surrounded him – “Jensanity”. The 61-year-old was in Taipei for Computex, one of Asia’s leading information technology shows.