Nvidia, one of the world's largest companies by market capitalization, was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem.
The three engineers established the company to develop graphics processors for demanding visual-computing tasks. Jensen Huang became chief executive and has led Nvidia since its founding, an unusually long tenure for a major technology company.
Nvidia’s breakthrough product line was the GeForce family, introduced in 1999. Its graphics processing units later became important not only in video games but also in scientific computing, artificial intelligence, and data centers.
Curtis Priem served as Nvidia’s first chief technology officer. Chris Malachowsky was an engineer and co-founder, while Huang became the company’s most visible public leader. Lisa Su is associated with AMD, not Nvidia, making her a frequent technology-industry mix-up.