The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip by Stephen Witt

The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip

by Stephen Witt

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From a founding in a Denny's to a brief moment in June 2024 as the world's most valuable company, Nvidia got there on Jensen Huang's genuinely contrarian bets. Witt follows a maker of video-game graphics chips as it becomes the essential supplier of AI hardware, and you see Wall Street doubting him along the way.

Core ideas
  • Two bets: First parallel computing, an architecture that had failed before, then neural networks, widely dismissed as impractical, more than a decade before the AI boom.
  • Hard to work for: Huang's management is intense and confrontational, and when Witt presses him on AI's potential dangers, Huang reacts sharply.
  • Niches nobody wanted: In Witt's view Huang won in Silicon Valley by pursuing unconventional products and markets that others ignored.
Published2025
Pages272
ISBN9780593832691
ReadNov 2025

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