Jensen Huang: observation

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…I got the sense that LSI Logic might have also changed your perspective and philosophy about computing, too. A sense we got from the research was that when right out of school and when you first went to AMD first, you believed a version of Jerry Sanders’ real men have fabs. You need to do the whole stack, you got to do everything, and that LSI Logic changed you. What LSI Logic did was realize that you can express transistors, logic gates, and chip functionality in high-level languages. That by raising the level of abstraction in what is now called high-level design—it was coined by Harvey Jones who’s on Nvidia’s board and I met him way back in the early days of Synopsys—during that time, there was this belief that you can express chip design in high level languages. And by doing so, you could take advantage of optimizing compilers, optimization logic, and tools, and be a lot more productive. That logic was so sensible to me. I was 21 years old at the time, and I wanted to pursue that vision. Frankly, that idea happened in machine learning. It happened in software programming. I want to see it happen in digital biology, so that we can think about biology in a much higher level language, probably a large language model would be the way to make it representable. That transition was so revolutionary, I thought that was the best thing ever happened to the industry. I was really happy to be part of it, and I was at ground zero. I saw one industry change revolutionize another industry. If not for LSI Logic doing the work that it did, Synopsys shortly after, then why would the computer industry be where it is today? It’s really, really terrific. I was at the right place at the right time to see all that. That’s super cool. It sounded like the CEO of LSI Logic put a good word in for you with Don Valentine, too.…

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