Nvidia designed the GeForce graphics processors and became a leading artificial-intelligence chip maker.
Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. It first became widely known for graphics-processing units used in personal computers and video games. The GeForce brand, introduced in 1999, became one of the company’s best-known consumer product lines.
Nvidia’s CUDA software platform helped developers use its GPUs for general-purpose parallel computing. That capability became especially important for machine-learning workloads, which require large numbers of calculations to be performed simultaneously.
Its market value grew sharply as cloud providers and technology companies sought accelerators for training and running artificial-intelligence systems. Nvidia does not manufacture most of its chips in its own factories; it designs processors and relies on semiconductor foundries, including TSMC, for fabrication.