NVIDIA uses the stock ticker NVDA and takes its name from a Latin word associated with envy.
The company was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. Its name was developed during the founding period, with “invidia,” the Latin word for envy, influencing the branding and the company’s eye-themed logo.
NVIDIA first became widely known for graphics processing units used in personal computers and video games. Its CUDA software platform later helped developers use those processors for general-purpose parallel computing. That capability made NVIDIA hardware important in scientific computing, machine learning, and generative artificial intelligence.
The ticker NVDA is used on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Because NVIDIA’s market value is closely watched, the ticker frequently appears in financial coverage of the world’s largest public companies. The company’s rapid expansion in data-center computing made it a major market-cap story.