New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- Avinatan Or, an engineer working with Nvidia's networking division, was among the 20 living hostages released by Hamas on Monday following a US-brokered truce between the Palestinian militant group and Israel.

As Or made his way back home, after two years in Hamas captivity, Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang shot out a letter to the chipmaker's global workforce, expressing his gratitude and relief at the engineer's release.

"I am profoundly moved and deeply grateful to share that, just moments ago, our colleague, Avinatan Or, was released to the Red Cross in Gaza," wrote Huang, adding, "After two unimaginable years in Hamas captivity, Avinatan has come home."

In the message, which was circulated internally, Huang also mad...