Nvidia has emerged as a dominant force in AI hardware, essential for advancements in artificial intelligence applications like ChatGPT. Tech journalist Stephen Witt remarks on the paradigm shift where AI is not only a software revolution but a hardware one, with Nvidia paving the way. CEO Jensen Huang's innovative vision is highlighted in Witt's new book. The article also discusses Nvidia's fluctuating stock and the geopolitical implications if tensions between China and Taiwan disrupt its microchip production, reflecting broader themes in U.S.-China tech competition and the future of manufacturing.
Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. The microchip maker Nvidia is a Silicon Valley colossus. After years as a runner-up to Intel and Qualcomm, Nvidia has all but cornered the market on the parallel processors essential for artificial-intelligence programs like ChatGPT.
Nvidia was there at the beginning of A.I., the tech journalist Stephen Witt tells David Remnick. They really kind of made these systems work for the first time. We think of A.I. as a software revolution, something called neural nets, but A.I. is also a hardware revolution.
In The New Yorker, Witt profiled Jensen Huang, Nvidia's brilliant and idiosyncratic co-founder and C.E.O. His new book is The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip.
If China takes military action against Taiwan, as it has indicated it might, the move could wrest control of the manufacturing of Nvidia microchips from a Taiwanese firm, which is now investing in a massive production facility in the U.S.
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