Nvidia designed the GeForce graphics processor family and was founded in 1993.
Nvidia was established in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. The company became known for graphics processing units, or GPUs, which rapidly perform many calculations in parallel. Its GeForce line targets consumer graphics and gaming computers.
Nvidia’s GPUs also became important in professional visualization, scientific computing, and artificial-intelligence workloads. The company developed CUDA, a parallel-computing platform that lets software use Nvidia GPUs for general-purpose computation. This broadened Nvidia’s role beyond rendering images for games.
Nvidia is often discussed among the world’s largest companies by market capitalization because demand for data-center and AI computing has strongly influenced investor expectations. Its market value is not the same as annual sales, chip shipments, or the value of the semiconductor industry as a whole.