Nvidia was founded in 1993, before becoming a market-cap giant in chips and artificial intelligence.
Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem founded Nvidia in 1993. The company initially focused on graphics processors and accelerated computing, markets that were then much smaller than today’s artificial-intelligence industry.
Nvidia’s graphics processing units became central to computer gaming, professional visualization, and later machine-learning workloads. Its CUDA software platform, introduced in 2006, helped developers use Nvidia GPUs for general-purpose parallel computing.
Nvidia is sometimes described as an AI company alone, but its roots are in computer graphics and semiconductor design. The company’s rise in market value accelerated as large-scale generative AI systems created enormous demand for powerful data-center processors.