Chris Malachowsky


Chris Malachowsky is an American electrical engineer and businessman. He is noted for having co-founded computer graphics company Nvidia in 1993, and serves as a senior vice president for engineering and operations.

Early life

Raised in the Oakhurst section of Ocean Township, [Monmouth County, New Jersey], Malachowsky graduated from Ocean Township High School in 1976. He received a B.S. degree in 1983, in electrical engineering from the University of Florida and an M.S. degree in 1986 from Santa Clara University.

Career

Early in his career, he worked for Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems. While working at Sun Microsystems, he became coworkers with Jensen Huang and Curtis Priem. In April 1993, the three would conceive of Nvidia during a meeting at Denny's. He went on to become a Senior Vice President for Engineering and Operations at Nvidia.

Malachowsky Hall

In November 2023, the Malachowsky Hall for Data Science & Information Technology was officially opened at the University of Florida. Malachowsky invested $25 million in the creation of HiPerGator AI, which UF claimed to be "the fastest supercomputer owned and operated by a university in the U.S."

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