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

By Stephen Witt

Categories: Business & Money, Computers & Technology

The Thinking Machine (2025) is journalist Stephen Witt's account of Jensen Huang, the co-founder and chief executive of the chipmaker Nvidia, and of the company's rise from video game graphics to artificial intelligence. Drawing on interviews with Huang, his colleagues, investors and employees, Witt traces Nvidia from its founding in 1993 through Huang's early bet on AI to its emergence as the main supplier of chips for AI computing. He also explains parallel processing and the technology behind large language models for general readers.

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• Scott Galloway: “Jensen Huang is smarter than the rest of us. He had the vision to see before anyone else that AI is the transformative technology of our time and the business chops to capitalize. Stephen Witt's up-close account of Nvidia's rise is an essential introduction to the future we are all going to be living in.”