Nvidia is represented by the ticker NVDA and became a leading market-cap company through accelerated computing.
Nvidia trades under NVDA and designs graphics processors, data-center accelerators, networking products, and related software. Its graphics processing units became central to artificial-intelligence training and inference because they can perform many calculations in parallel. Demand for data-center hardware helped drive a dramatic increase in Nvidia’s market capitalization.
The company was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. Nvidia introduced the GeForce brand in 1999, helping establish consumer graphics processors as a major product category. Its CUDA software platform, released in 2006, also helped developers use Nvidia hardware for general-purpose parallel computing.
Nvidia’s market value is not the same as the value of all chips it sells. Market capitalization reflects investors’ current valuation of the company’s equity and can change every trading day.