Semiconductor company Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has seen its share price increase nearly 1,000% since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022. Specifically, Nvidia dominates the market for data center graphics processing units (GPUs) and accounted for 98% of shipments last year.

When I started working on a book about Nvidia in early May 2023, the artificial-intelligence boom was still in its infancy. Based on my years covering the chip sector, and tech more broadly, I was confident the party was just getting started,

Nvidia’s CEO turned a struggling upstart into the world’s most valuable company. An exclusive look at how it happened.