NVIDIA is the company identified by the stock ticker NVDA that became a market-cap leader through graphics processors.
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 to render computer graphics for video games and professional applications.
The company’s CUDA software platform later allowed developers to use NVIDIA GPUs for general-purpose parallel computing. That capability helped make NVIDIA hardware central to artificial-intelligence training and other data-center workloads. Demand for AI computing contributed to a dramatic increase in NVIDIA’s share price and market capitalization.
NVIDIA is sometimes confused with AMD because both design important processors and graphics products. NVIDIA’s ticker is NVDA, while AMD trades under AMD. The company’s rise illustrates why market value can change rapidly when investors reassess a firm’s role in a major technology shift.