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I stopped reading right here:

> Because Nvidia became one of the most valuable companies in the world, there are now two books explaining its rise and extolling the genius of Jensen Huang,

Yeah, he's a real genius. (Sarcasm). He is a marking guy, there is no genius behind this man.

The fact that Nvidia uses its market position cause harm to the industry by strong-arming partners to toe the line makes this company a problem, just like all the others. They operate like any other predatory corporation.

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> He is a marking guy,

You would be wrong. He worked at AMD as a design engineer, and later went to LSI logic helping customers put out custom ASICs. One of his customers, a big customer, was Sun, helping with their SPARC processor and the GX graphics chips, and no doubt many others.

In 1989-1991 I did three ASICs at LSI Logic -- and Jensen was my liason there on the latter two. He was incredibly smart, hard working, technically knowledgeable, kind, patient, and generous with his time despite being very busy.

The marketing stuff came later (or maybe said better: it was latent and it came out later)

If he is an engineer he sure doesn't sound like it with his keynote address. The guy spends more time on AI than talking about how they plan on improve technology and their relationship with their partners.

AI has been the holy grail for several generations of software engineers; why shouldn't he be excited about it?

He's not excited about the tech, he's excited about the money it's going to bring him and promoting it like a fucking idiot. You can see that in his keynotes.

We get it, you hate the man, but don't pretend you are a mind reader. As for him being a fucking idiot, he sure is succeeding at his goals.

You claimed he is not an engineer -- I told you he was an excellent engineer from first hand experience -- you were wrong on that score.

He is now the CEO of a company. His job now is to promote the company -- yes, that involves doing PR and puffing up the company, and making money. His role isn't to sit behind a terminal and run gate sims and figure out why some deeply buried state machine is going off the rails.

The Nvidia of the late 90s died once they realized people wanted compute on a video card.

Probably read the rest? I did not see Jensen's name on any of the patents that this key engineer discusses the detail and rationale of, and I feel that those names are listed fairly deliberately.

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