Nvidia is the company identified by the stock ticker NVDA and known as a major designer of graphics processing units.
Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. The company initially focused on graphics hardware for personal computers and became closely associated with gaming GPUs. Its chips process many calculations in parallel, making them useful for graphics, scientific computing, and artificial-intelligence workloads.
Nvidia’s CUDA software platform, introduced in 2006, allowed developers to use compatible GPUs for general-purpose computing. That ecosystem helped expand the company beyond video games into data centers, machine learning, and high-performance computing.
Nvidia’s rising market value has been connected to demand for AI infrastructure, but market capitalization is not the same as revenue or profit. NVDA is the exchange ticker for Nvidia Corporation, while AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm are separate semiconductor companies with different product mixes.