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Computer ArchitectureBook

by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson

Who uses, recommends or left Computer Architecture, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang is the chief executive of Nvidia, the company that designs nearly all the chips and infrastructure that the rest of the industry relies on.
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I The The book that that made a huge impact on me was uh computer architecture from Hennessy and Patterson, a quantitative approach. Uh it was the first computer architecture book that that reduced the complexity, the abstract idea of computer architecture uh down to engineering. And I I love it when when people take complicated concepts and reduce it into something that you could do something about.

Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jensen-huang.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.

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