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Jacopo Pantaleoni accused this company, his former employer, of powering the “attention economy” in his book The Quickest Revolution. This company, which acquired Cumulus Networks and the Israeli firm Mellanox in 2020, developed its Blackwell (15[1])line of products as a replacement for the Hopper line. The FTC blocked the planned acquisition of Arm Limited from SoftBank by this company, which manufactures the (*) DGX series. (10[2])This company developed the programming platform and API (“A-P-I”) CUDA (“Koo-duh”) for general-purpose (10[1])computing on their primary product. Jensen Huang is the CEO (10[1]-5[1])of this competitor of AMD and Intel, which (10[1])overtook Microsoft in June 2024 to become the most valuable publicly traded company. For 10 points, name this leading GPU manufacturer in Silicon Valley. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Nvidia Corporation
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