In 1993, you might have been busy trying to rescue Princess Zelda or throwing banana peels at your pursuers in Mario Kart.
3D has not yet swept the world: “Street Fighter II” and “Aladdin”, the cartoons of the time, display characters with clearly visible pixels and still jerky movements. This world, however, is on the verge of disappearing: somewhere in the back room of a fast-food restaurant in the suburbs of San José, California, three men are in deep discussion.
They don’t know it yet, but between the three of them, they will revolutionize the video game market and found an empire.
The story of Nvidia is the story of a certain era, when the video game market was not what it is today, where gamers were looked at with a little condescension (from Elsewhere, the own mother of Jensen Huang, the founder of Nvidia, advised him to “find a real job” when he told her he was creating the company…). The story of a turning point, taken in 2007: using the power of GPUs (graphics cards) for something other than visual. A bet that will be decisive when the wave of artificial intelligence reverses everything, announcing the arrival of a certain ChatGPT…
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