Nvidia was originally founded to develop chips for which type of technology?

Nvidia was originally founded to develop chips for computer graphics.

Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. The company focused on graphics-processing technology for personal computers, especially demanding visual applications such as three-dimensional games.

Its graphics processing units, or GPUs, became important in gaming and professional visualization. GPUs later proved useful for massively parallel calculations, helping Nvidia expand into data centers, scientific computing, and artificial-intelligence systems.

That evolution contributed to Nvidia becoming one of the world’s most valuable companies by market capitalization. A frequent misunderstanding is that GPUs are only for video games. Their parallel architecture also makes them powerful tools for training and running many machine-learning models.