Nvidia’s shares trade under the ticker NVDA, and its chips helped make it a leading artificial-intelligence hardware company.
Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. It became famous for graphics processing units, or GPUs, which were first closely associated with computer graphics and video games.
Researchers later used GPUs for highly parallel calculations in machine learning. Nvidia’s CUDA software platform and data-center accelerators helped it become central to the infrastructure supporting modern artificial-intelligence systems, driving a dramatic rise in revenue and market capitalization.
NVDA is the company’s Nasdaq ticker, not the name of a chip or a separate subsidiary. Nvidia is also distinct from AMD and Intel, which design competing processors and accelerators but have different product portfolios and market positions.