Nvidia designed the CUDA platform, widely used to program its graphics processing units.
Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. It first became famous for graphics processors used in personal computers and video games, but its programmable GPUs later became important for scientific computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
Nvidia introduced CUDA in 2006. CUDA lets developers use compatible Nvidia GPUs for general-purpose parallel computing rather than limiting them to graphics. A common mix-up is confusing Nvidia with a semiconductor foundry: Nvidia primarily designs chips, while companies such as TSMC manufacture many of its leading processors.