Throughout the current AI boom, quantum computing companies have quietly been making advancements, offering previews as to what the next phase of technology could look like. Huang

Jensen Huang founded accelerated computing company Nvidia ( NVDA -0.02%) in 1993, and has served as the CEO and president ever since. Nvidia has achieved many breakthroughs under his leadership, but the invention of the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999 was particularly momentous.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said improvements to the chip giant’s hardware are outpacing Moore’s Law. In an interview with TechCrunch after his keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Huang said “Our systems are progressing way faster than Moore’s Law.”