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

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

Very hagiographical, often not from the author directly but from the people interviewed, and definitely leans toward the booster side of the AI argument regarding capabilities. Still, it gets the point across well enough if you just want to know about this guy and his business.

ericfreemantx's review

4.0

challenging informative fast-paced

tjh14850's review

4.0

Thorough biography of Jensen Huang who founded and has been running Nvidia as a very successful and influential business, leading the application of new AI hardware and software applications - and the main chips used by other firms working in the AI field. A deep dive on Huang's personal life and work habits which have strongly led to the success of the company. Some projection on where AI might be going and approach to some doomsday prophesies illustrated in the science fiction genre. I appreciated the deep discussion of Nvidia's approach to work projects and see that it is way beyond the hype that the investment community is off-and-on about. A lot of the company's success depends on Nvidia's commitment to working on new technologies and applications. Whenever Nvidia takes over a company, the result is a synergistic increase in the company's capabilities. Acqusitions are well considered, not like many of the reckless mergers and acquisitions made by other companies. If the above comments don't interest you, I would not recommend this book for you.