How Jensen Huang found the chipmaker that saved Nvidia in an old phone book

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has revealed that the partnership behind the world's most powerful AI chips started with a phone book, a string of unanswered calls and a long letter to TSMC founder Morris Chang. In a video with podcaster Lex Fridman released this week, Huang said Nvidia was a struggling startup in the late 1990s, desperate for a manufacturer, and TSMC simply would not call him back.Today, Nvidia is the world's most valuable company and TSMC is the world's biggest chipmaker. The two have worked together for nearly 30 years. Huang said Chang's call, when it finally came, was the moment he believed Nvidia might survive.How Jensen Huang found TSMC in the Yellow PagesNvidia needed a foundry to produce its graphics chips, but capacity was tight.