Nvidia is identified by the stock ticker NVDA and became a major supplier of graphics processors for artificial intelligence.
Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. It first became widely known for graphics processing units, or GPUs, used in personal computers and video games. The company later developed CUDA, a software platform that lets developers use Nvidia GPUs for general-purpose parallel computing.
That combination of hardware and software made Nvidia’s products especially important for training and running artificial-intelligence models. Demand from data centers helped transform Nvidia from a graphics specialist into one of the world’s largest companies by market capitalization.
NVDA is the Nasdaq ticker symbol for Nvidia’s common stock. Market value depends on the share price and number of shares outstanding, so Nvidia’s ranking can change rapidly. Its rise also illustrates how a company’s original gaming market can expand into a much larger computing market.