Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made an esports organization his very first stop in Seoul, visiting T1's "Base Camp" Internet café near Hongik University this Friday to meet their League of Legends roster, including Lee "Faker
An estimated 500 fans packed the venue, and Huang signed autographs and posed for photos before taking the stage. He praised Korea as the birthplace of esports and the place where modern spectator culture was born.
Korean gamers chose the best graphics processing units to win, and that was Nvidia,"
Huang said.
The meeting's highlight came when Huang held up a one-of-a-kind RTX 5090 signed by both himself and Faker. "Faker uses 5070, and this is the 5090," he said.
Huang then raffled the card off to a lucky fan in the crowd. When he asked the winner what GPU he plays on, the fan answered an RTX 2070. Huang laughed and called it "an antique of an antique," joking that Nvidia was making the 2070 back when he was still a child. The rest of the T1 squad then joined them for photos.
Huang also drew two names from the crowd and gave them signed black cards, each redeemable for an "RTX Spark" gaming laptop set to launch this fall.
According to Inven, T1 COO Ahn Woong-ki explained that the relationship was built earlier through a Valorant social media event co-hosted with Nvidia. The organization proposed the meeting once they heard Huang was travelling to Korea.
Huang stayed for roughly 40 minutes before departing. Later that evening, he was scheduled to meet SK Chairman Chey Tae-won, LG Chairman Koo Kwang-mo and Naver Chairman Lee Hae-jin to discuss cooperation on AI semiconductors and data center infrastructure.
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