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
AuthorStephen Witt
ISBN978-0-593-83269-1

The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World's Most Coveted microchip is a biography about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, written by Stephen Witt. It was given Financial Times Business Book of the Year in 2025 [1][2]

Synopsis

The book covers Jensen Huang's childhood, where his parents sent him to American with his older brother, and accidentally placed them in a boarding school for troubled youths, to him becoming a champion of table tennis, starting Nvidia with two others, and its ups and downs.

Reception

The Guardian states "It’s a great story and Witt tells it well." [3]

Publishers Weekly calls it "insightful".[4]

The NY Times' review says that the book "leaves us unsure of its subject’s vision of the future, and Huang will probably never give a satisfying answer".[5]

References

  1. ^ "MSN". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
  2. ^ "Stephen Witt wins FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2025-12-31.
  3. ^ Naughton, John (2025-04-20). "The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World's Most Coveted microchip – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
  4. ^ "The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip by Stephen Witt". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
  5. ^ "How Video Games Ushered In the A.I. Revolution". 2025-04-05. Archived from the original on 2025-04-09. Retrieved 2025-12-31.