Nvidia, founded in 1993, is one of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers by market capitalization.
Nvidia was founded by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem in 1993. The company became famous for graphics processing units, or GPUs, which were first associated strongly with computer graphics and video games.
Its GPUs later became important for data centers, scientific computing, and artificial-intelligence workloads. Demand for accelerated computing helped Nvidia's market value rise sharply, placing it among the world's richest publicly traded companies. Its valuation still changes with share prices and expectations about future technology demand.
Nvidia is sometimes described as a traditional chip manufacturer, but it primarily designs semiconductors and relies on manufacturing partners for fabrication. This differs from an integrated manufacturer that both designs and physically produces most of its chips.