Nvidia was founded in 1993.
Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem founded Nvidia in 1993. The company initially concentrated on graphics hardware for personal computers, a field that was becoming important as games and graphical software demanded faster processing.
Nvidia introduced the GeForce 256 in 1999 and described it as the world's first GPU, or graphics processing unit. Its hardware later became important beyond video games, because GPUs can perform many calculations in parallel. That capability made them useful for scientific computing, machine learning, and artificial-intelligence systems.
Nvidia's name is commonly written with a lowercase “n” in its branding, but the legal company name is NVIDIA Corporation. Its market value has been particularly sensitive to demand for data-center accelerators and AI infrastructure. The company is a chip designer and platform developer; it generally relies on manufacturing partners rather than operating the world's largest chip foundries itself.