Nvidia was founded in 1993 as NVIDIA Corporation and became a leading producer of graphics processing units.
Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem founded Nvidia in 1993. The company initially focused on graphics hardware for personal computers, helping create a market for programmable graphics processors used in games and professional visualization.
Nvidia’s CUDA platform later allowed its processors to perform general-purpose parallel computing. That capability became especially important for artificial intelligence, scientific computing, and data centers, where many calculations can be performed simultaneously.
The growth of AI-related demand transformed Nvidia into one of the world’s most valuable public companies by market capitalization. Its rise is sometimes described as a simple gaming story, but gaming, professional visualization, automotive technology, and data-center computing all form part of its corporate history.