I did not know about one of the two: The Thinking Machine, Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and The World's Most Coveted Microship, Stephen Witt, c. 2025. But what a great gift.
The second, I've mentioned on the blog. I had planned to eventually buy it myself but here it is, a birthday gift. Other Minds: The Octopus, The Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, Peter Godfrey-Smith, c. 2016. Godfrey-Smith is also the author of Metazoa which I've written about on the blog previously.
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The Thinking Machine:
Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Chip
Stephen Witt, c. 2025.
Introduction
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This is the story of how a niche vendor of video game hardware became the most valuable company in the world. It is the story of a stubborn entrepreneur who pushed his radical vision for computing for thirty years, in the process becoming one of the wealthiest men alive. It is the story of a revolution in silicon and the small group of renegade engineers who defied Wall Street to make it happen. And it is the story of the birth of an awesome and terrifying new category of artificial intelligence, whose long term implications for the human species cannot be known.
At the center of this story is a propulsive, mercurial, brilliant, and extraordinarily dedicated man.
His name is Jensen Huang, and his thirty-two-year tenure is the longest of any technology CEO in the S&P 500. Huang is a visionary inventor whose familiarity witj the inner workings of electronic circuitry approaches a kind of intimacy. He reasons from first principles about what microchips can do today, then gambles with great conviction on what they will do tomorrow. He does not always win, but when he does, he wins big: his early, all-in bet on AI was one of the best investments in Silicon Valley history. Huang's company, Nvidia, is today worth more than $3 trillion, rivaling both Apple and Microsoft in value.
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