NVIDIA

NVIDIA Corporation, commonly known as Nvidia, is an American multinational technology company that designs graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-a-chip (SoC) units for a range of markets. It was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia is a leading supplier of GPU technology for gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and automotive applications, and it has played a major role in the development of GPU-accelerated computing and artificial intelligence.

The company’s product portfolio includes GeForce consumer GPUs for gaming, and professional-grade GPUs under the Quadro and RTX brands for workstations and visualization. Its Tegra line targets mobile and embedded applications. In data centers, Nvidia markets accelerators such as the A100 and H100 for AI training, inference, and high-performance computing. The CUDA programming model enables developers to harness parallel processing on Nvidia hardware. Nvidia also offers software platforms and tools such as CUDA, cuDNN, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, and the Omniverse collaboration and simulation platform, as well as cloud gaming via GeForce Now and autonomous driving through NVIDIA DRIVE.

NVIDIA went public in 1999 and has grown through numerous acquisitions, notably Mellanox Technologies in 2019 to expand networking capabilities. It announced a planned acquisition of Arm Limited in 2020 for about $40 billion, but the deal was terminated in 2022 due to regulatory challenges. The company is led by co-founder Jensen Huang as chief executive officer and operates globally with extensive manufacturing and R&D facilities.

NVIDIA is a dominant force in GPU-accelerated computing and a key player in gaming, data centers, AI, and professional visualization. It competes with AMD and Intel across several segments and collaborates with cloud providers and developers to advance AI and high-performance workloads.