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Jen-Hsun Huang, the founder and chief executive officer of graphics chip-maker Nvidia, will donate $30 million to help build a “modern and sustainable destination for education and research” at Stanford’s school of engineering, according to a Stanford press release.

To be called the Jen-Hsun Huang School of Engineering Center, the 130,000-square-foot building is already under construction and expected to be completed in the first half of 2010.

Nvidia has recently become a founding member of Stanford’s Pervasive Parallelism Lab, whose charter is “to develop new techniques, tools and training materials to allow software engineers to take full advantage of multi-processor computer systems.”

The Huang Center is the second building to take shape in what is now known as the Science and Engineering Quad, located just west of the university’s main quad. The first completed building is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy building (Y2E2) that opened in March.

But of course, the Huang Center, like all SEQ buildings, will “employ the same energy and water-saving features that have made Y2E2 an award-winning flagship of Stanford’s commitment to constructing environmentally sustainable buildings.”