The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
2025 biography by Stephen Witt
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The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World's Most Coveted microchip is a biography of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, written by Stephen Witt. It was given Financial Times Business Book of the Year in 2025.[1][2] It was also named a Best Book of 2025 by The Economist.[3]
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| Author | Stephen Witt |
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| ISBN | 978-0-593-83269-1 |
Synopsis
The book covers Jensen Huang's childhood, where his parents sent him to America 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. It also describes 30 years of the history of NVIDIA and considers the future of AI.[4]
Reception
The Guardian states "It's a great story and Witt tells it well."[5]
Publishers Weekly calls it "insightful".[6]
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".[7]