Nvidia’s co-founder Jensen Huang became a prominent billionaire as its GPUs powered artificial-intelligence systems.
Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. The company initially focused on graphics processors for personal computers and video games. Its CUDA software platform later made Nvidia GPUs useful for general-purpose parallel computing, including scientific workloads and machine learning.
Demand for generative artificial intelligence greatly increased interest in Nvidia’s data-center accelerators. That growth helped Nvidia become one of the world’s largest companies by market capitalization. The company is a chip designer rather than a leading contract manufacturer: much of its advanced silicon is fabricated by outside foundries such as TSMC.