Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (젠슨 황) visited the home PC cafe of esports team T1 as his first stop after arriving in South Korea and met player Lee Sang-hyeok (이상혁), known as Faker.

Huang entered the country via Gimpo Airport at about 1:25 p.m. on June 5 and went straight to T1 Basecamp near Hongdaeipgu Station in Mapo-gu, Seoul. Arriving at about 2:44 p.m., he met five T1 players, including Faker, as well as Choi Hyeon-jun (최현준), known as Doran, Moon Hyeon-jun (문현준), known as Oner, Kim Su-hwan (김수환), known as Peyz, and Ryu Min-seok (류민석), known as Keria.

At the event, Huang said, "Gaming is Nvidia’s starting point," adding, "Korean gamers chose the best GPU to win, and that was Nvidia." He also recalled witnessing the StarCraft boom during a previous visit to South Korea, and said, "Korea not only invented esports but also made gaming a sport to watch."

After talking with Lee, Huang gave him a next-generation flagship graphics card, the GeForce RTX 5090, bearing his signature. Huang stressed it was "a one-of-a-kind edition in the world."

The event also introduced a next-generation AI PC architecture, RTX Spark. RTX Spark processes multiple software stacks at the same time, including DirectX, OpenGL and CUDA, and supports running AI agents on PCs. It is currently in mass production in laptop, desktop and workstation forms. Huang wrapped up the event by personally presenting, through an on-site draw, an exchange voucher for an RTX Spark laptop scheduled to be released this fall.

Huang’s visit to South Korea is his first in about seven months since the Gyeongju APEC meeting in October last year.