The stock ticker for Nvidia, the chip designer founded in 1993, is NVDA.
Nvidia was founded by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem in 1993. The company initially focused on graphics-processing technology for personal computers and became especially influential in computer gaming. Its GeForce graphics processors helped popularize programmable graphics hardware.
Nvidia’s CUDA platform, introduced in 2006, allowed developers to use graphics processors for general-purpose parallel computing. That capability later became important for artificial intelligence, scientific computing, and data centers. The company now designs GPUs, networking products, and related software, while manufacturing is performed by outside semiconductor foundries.
Nvidia is often confused with AMD or Intel because all three are major semiconductor companies. Their product portfolios and manufacturing arrangements differ. Nvidia shares trade on the Nasdaq under the four-letter symbol NVDA.