Nvidia is the semiconductor company founded in 1993 that designs GeForce graphics processors and uses the ticker NVDA.
Nvidia was founded by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem in 1993. The company initially focused on graphics processing units for personal computers and became especially known for its GeForce line, introduced in 1999.
Its CUDA software platform, announced in 2006, allowed developers to use Nvidia GPUs for general-purpose parallel computing. That capability later made Nvidia hardware important for scientific computing, machine learning, and generative artificial intelligence.
Nvidia designs chips and platforms but generally relies on specialist manufacturers, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, to fabricate many of them. This makes Nvidia a “fabless” semiconductor company rather than an integrated chip manufacturer.