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INTERVIEW: Huang's Character Led Sega to Invest in Nvidia

Tokyo, Sept. 12 (Jiji Press)--Shoichiro Irimajiri, former president of what is now Japan's Sega Co., said in a recent interview that he had decided to invest 5 million dollars in then-fledgling U.S. chipmaker Nvidia Corp. in the late 1990s because he was impressed by the character of its CEO, Jensen Huang. Irimajiri, 86, was head of then-Sega Enterprises Ltd. when he persuaded the company's ...

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US Department of Energy grants $73M to advance domestic mining technology

Selected projects, will develop mining proving grounds and support R&D projects that accelerate the progression of technologies from laboratories to testing and demonstration.

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