Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has attended an event in Tokyo

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has attended an event in Tokyo, where he expressed gratitude for early support from the Japanese game maker Sega.

The event was held jointly on Wednesday by the two companies in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. Demand for Nvidia’s graphics processing units has been growing with the spread of artificial intelligence. Sega used Nvidia’s GPUs in its popular games in the 1990s.

Huang said his firm had been struggling at the time. He recalled getting through the crisis after successfully developing GPUs with Sega funding. Sega’s vice president at the time, Irimajiri Shoichiro, was also at the event. Huang said without Sega’s funding, Nvidia “would be out of business today.”