01188nam a2200181   450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200170007610000180009324500850011126000380019630000170023450000690025152006070032065000280092765000270095565000240098220251122121918.0251122b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781847928283  a006.3223 WIT  aWitt, Stephen  aThinking machine:bJensen Huang, Nvidia, and the world's most coveted microchip   aLondon:bThe bodley head;cc2025.  axviii, 248p.  aSHORTLISTED FOR THE FT SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025.  aIn June 2024, Nvidia became the most valuable corporation on Earth. The Thinking Machine is the astonishing story of how a designer of videogame equipment conquered the market for AI hardware, and in the process reinvented the computer.

It is the story of a determined entrepreneur who defied Wall Street to push his radical vision for computing, becoming one of the wealthiest men alive.

And it’s the story of our awesome and terrifying AI future, as a new kind of microchip unlocks hyper-realistic avatars, autonomous robots, self-driving cars and new movies, art and books, generated on command.  aArtificial intelligence  aEquipment and supplies  aIntegrated circuits