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The Company That Built the Future — Then Valued It at Five Trillion Dollars

How Nvidia turned chips into the indispensable infrastructure of the AI age, and why its latest robotics gambit may define the next decade of automation.

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The Geometry of Power

On a spring morning in 1993, three engineers met in a San Jose diner and decided to build a company around a hunch: that the future of computing would be visual, three-dimensional, and hungry for parallel processing power . Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem founded Nvidia on 5 April of that year, naming it after the Latin word for envy — a curious choice for a firm that would, three decades later, become the object of Wall Street's most feverish desire .

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