Which company owns the NVIDIA brand, a major name among the world’s highest-valued chip companies?

NVIDIA Corporation owns and operates the NVIDIA brand.

NVIDIA was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. The company first became widely known for graphics processing units used in computer games, but its chips later became central to data-center computing and artificial-intelligence workloads.

Investor demand for AI infrastructure helped NVIDIA’s market capitalization rise dramatically in the 2020s. Market-cap rankings can therefore change quickly as expectations about chip demand, competition, and future earnings change.

NVIDIA is sometimes confused with Intel or AMD because all three are major semiconductor companies. They differ in business models and product histories, and NVIDIA is especially associated with GPUs and its CUDA software ecosystem.