Review of The Thinking Machine, by Stephen Witt

I recently read The Thinking Machine, by Stephen Witt. The book captures the various phases of Nvidia, from its launch in 1993, to today: 1. Building the best GPUs for video games (e.g. for Quake) 2. Spotting the opportunity that these GPUs can do arithmetic-heavy tasks 10x-100x faster than CPUs 3. Investing into this opportunity (CUDA) before there was demand in the market. 4. Nvidia was then in…