Nvidia is the chip designer known for the GeForce graphics-processing-unit brand.
Nvidia introduced the GeForce brand in 1999 for graphics-processing units, or GPUs, used heavily in personal computers and video games. GPUs perform many calculations in parallel, making them useful not only for rendering graphics but also for scientific computing and machine-learning workloads.
The company’s importance expanded sharply as data centers adopted GPUs for artificial intelligence. Nvidia supplies chips, networking products, software, and development tools used to train and run modern AI systems. That growth drove major changes in investor expectations and helped Nvidia become one of the world’s most valuable publicly traded companies.
Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. GeForce is a product family, not the name of the company’s entire business. Nvidia also develops data-center hardware and the CUDA software platform, while competing graphics brands such as Radeon belong to AMD.