Nvidia was founded in 1993, before it became one of the world’s most valuable companies by market capitalization.
Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem established Nvidia on April 5, 1993. The company initially focused on graphics processors for personal computers, a market that later expanded dramatically through gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence.
Nvidia’s early history is sometimes confused with the launch date of its best-known products. Its first product, the NV1, arrived in 1995, while the GeForce brand debuted in 1999. Those dates mark important product milestones, not the company’s founding.
The company’s later market-capitalization growth was strongly linked to demand for GPUs used in machine learning and AI systems. Nvidia’s headquarters are in Santa Clara, California, at the center of Silicon Valley’s technology industry.