Nvidia introduced the A100 and H100 data-center GPUs that helped drive its rise among the world’s most valuable companies.
Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. It first became widely known for graphics processors used in personal computers and video games. The company later developed CUDA, a software platform that lets developers use compatible GPUs for general-purpose parallel computing.
The A100, based on Nvidia’s Ampere architecture, and the H100, based on Hopper, became important products for training and running artificial-intelligence models. Strong demand for AI computing increased Nvidia’s revenue and investor valuation. A GPU is not simply a faster version of every CPU: it is designed to handle many calculations in parallel, making it particularly useful for graphics and machine-learning workloads.