Nvidia is known for designing the GPUs that helped drive the modern artificial-intelligence boom.
Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. It first became widely known for graphics processors used in personal computers and video games, but its chips later became important for data-center computing and machine-learning workloads.
A graphics processing unit can perform many calculations in parallel. That architecture is well suited to training and running neural networks, especially when combined with Nvidia’s CUDA software platform and related data-center systems.
Nvidia’s rapid growth made it one of the world’s most valuable public companies by market capitalization. Its rise is sometimes described as a story about gaming alone, but data-center and AI demand became central to its valuation during the 2020s.