Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation ( ) is an American technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, it develops graphics processing units (GPUs), systems on chips (SoCs), and application programming interfaces (APIs) for data science, high-performance computing, video games, and mobile and automotive applications. Nvidia has been described as a Big Tech company.

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Nvidia is an American technology company founded in 1993 that designs and develops graphics processing units (GPUs) and related computing technologies used in video games, data science, artificial intelligence, and automotive applications. The company matters because its GPU technology has become essential infrastructure for modern computing, powering everything from gaming and scientific research to autonomous vehicles and AI systems.

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Company.name: Nvidia Corporation
Company.logo_caption: Logo used since 2006
Company.image: 2788-2888 San Tomas Expwy.jpg
Company.image_upright: 1.2
Company.image_caption: Headquarters in Santa Clara, California, in 2023
Company.type: Public
Company.industry: Semiconductors
Company.foundation: , in Sunnyvale, California, US
Company.hq_location_city: Santa Clara, California
Company.hq_location_country: US

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History
Founding
First graphics accelerator
Public company
2007–2014
2016–2018
2019 acquisition of Mellanox Technologies
2020–2023
2024–2026
Corporate affairs
Leadership
Board of directors
Finances
Ownership
Fabrication
GPU Technology Conference
Product families
Open-source software support
List of Nvidia open-source projects
Nvidia proprietary software
Deep learning
DGX
Robotics
Inception Program
Controversies
GTX 970 hardware specifications advertising dispute
GeForce Partner Program
Hardware Unboxed
Improper disclosures about cryptomining
French Competition Authority Investigation
AI regulation dispute with Anthropic
Proposed Shanghai facility
Chinese market halt
Data scraping & Anna's Archive piracy
Deepseek and Nvidia
2024-2025 Chip smuggling scheme
See also
Notes
References
Further reading
External links

Originally focused on GPUs for video gaming, Nvidia broadened their use into other markets, including artificial intelligence (AI), professional visualization, and supercomputing. The company's product lines include GeForce GPUs for gaming and creative workloads, and professional GPUs for edge computing, scientific research, and industrial applications. As of the first quarter of 2025, Nvidia held a 92% share of the discrete desktop and laptop GPU market.