Nvidia is the world's richest-company-by-market-cap example that developed the CUDA parallel-computing platform.
Nvidia introduced CUDA in 2006 as a parallel-computing platform and programming model for using its graphics-processing units for general-purpose computation. The name originally referred to Compute Unified Device Architecture.
Graphics processors contain many cores designed to perform operations in parallel, making them useful beyond rendering images. CUDA helped researchers and developers use Nvidia hardware for scientific computing, machine learning, simulations, and other demanding workloads.
CUDA is a software ecosystem rather than a chip model. Nvidia's market-value expansion has been strongly associated with data-center accelerators and artificial-intelligence workloads, while the company first became widely known for computer graphics and gaming hardware.