
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
#1240 of 3,809 books · #23 in Business & Economics
Won the Financial Times and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award (2025).
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World's Most Coveted Microchip won the FT Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 and was a Sunday Times, Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year. This is the story of the company that is inventing the future. Nvidia is the world's first $5-trillion company and the most important corporation on Earth. Led by its charismatic CEO, Jensen Huang, it has gone from video game equipment manufacturer to conquering the global market for AI hardware, reinventing the computer and shaping life as we know it. With unprecedented access to Huang, award-winning investigative journalist Stephen Witt takes us inside Nvidia to tell the definitive story of the greatest technology company of our times. It is the astonishing story of renegade engineers and Silicon Valley disrupters, of fearless entrepreneurs and one revolutionary leader with an extraordinarily singular vision.
- Publisher
- Random House
- ISBN-13
- 9781529936537
- Genre
- Topics
- NvidiaArtificial intelligence hardwareJensen Huang
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