HONG KONG, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Nvidia ( NVDA ) CEO Jensen

Huang said on Saturday that global collaboration and cooperation

in technology will continue, even if the incoming U.S.

administration imposes stricter export controls on advanced

computing products.

President-elect Donald Trump, in his first term in office,

imposed a series of restrictions on the sale of U.S. technology

to China citing national security concerns - a policy broadly

continued under incumbent President Joe Biden.

"Open science in global collaboration, cooperation across

math and science has been around for a very long time. It is the

foundation of social advancement and scientific advancement,"

Huang told media during a visit to Hong Kong.

Global cooperation is "going to continue. I don't know

what's going to happen in the new administration, but whatever

happens, we'll balance simultaneously compliance with laws and

policies, continue to advance our technology and support and

serve customers all over the world."

Earlier on Saturday Huang told graduates and academics at

the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology that "the age

of AI has started" in a speech after receiving an honorary

doctorate degree in engineering.

The head of the world's leading maker of chips used for

artificial intelligence applications received the award

alongside actor Tony Leung, Nobel Prize for Chemistry winner

Prof. Michael Levitt and Fields Medallist Prof. David Mumford.

"The age of AI has started. A new computing era that will

impact every industry and every field of science," said Huang.

He said Nvidia ( NVDA ) has "reinvented computing and sparked a new

industrial revolution," 25 years after inventing the graphics

processing unit.

"AI is certainly the most important technology of our time,

and potentially of all times."

Huang, 61, also told graduates that he wished he had started

his career at this time.

"The whole world is reset. You're at the starting lines with

everybody else. An industry is being reinvented. You now have

the instruments, the instruments necessary to advance science in

so many different fields," Huang said.

"The greatest challenges of our time, unimaginable

challenges to overcome in the past, all of a sudden seem

possible to tackle."

In the afternoon, Huang will participate in a fireside chat

with the university's Council Chairman Harry Sham, teachers and

students.