Nvidia CEO meets esports icon Faker as 1st stop in Korea

The first person Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met in Seoul on Friday was Korea’s League of Legends superstar Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok.

Huang met the esports legend at a PC cafe run by Faker’s esports team, T1, in the Hongdae area of Mapo District at around 3 p.m. The meeting included Faker and the team’s four other players and took place less than two hours after Huang landed in Seoul. “This is the birthplace of esports,” Huang said while meeting T1 at the cafe.

He added that Korea has been in his heart for a long time and said he is a big fan the team. “When I first came to Korea, there was Starcraft.

It was the first spectator sport for esports,” Huang said.

He added that Korean esports players opted to use optimal graphics processing units (GPU) and chose GeForce, Nvidia’s brand of globally popular graphics cards.

Huang asked Faker whether he and his team uses GeForce.

They said they use RTX 4070, and Huang replied, “That’s an antique.” Later Huang and Faker exchanged gifts, with the former presenting an RTX 5090 GPU sporting his autograph, while Faker presented a j