Nvidia is the company whose stock ticker is NVDA, a leading symbol in the market-cap race for semiconductor companies.
Nvidia’s common stock trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol NVDA. The company designs graphics processing units, or GPUs, and develops software and systems that use them for gaming, professional visualization, scientific computing, and artificial intelligence.
Nvidia was established in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. Its CUDA software platform, introduced in 2006, helped developers use Nvidia GPUs for general-purpose parallel computing rather than graphics alone.
The company’s market value rose dramatically as cloud providers and other businesses invested in accelerated computing for generative artificial intelligence. A stock ticker identifies a listed security; it is not the same thing as a company’s legal name or exchange listing.