Nvidia is the semiconductor company that uses the ticker NVDA and became one of the world’s most valuable companies during the AI boom.
Nvidia designs graphics processing units, or GPUs, and develops software platforms used in gaming, scientific computing, and artificial intelligence. Demand for its data-center GPUs surged as companies built systems for training and running large AI models.
The company’s shares trade on the Nasdaq under the symbol NVDA. A stock ticker identifies a listed company; it is not the same thing as a market-capitalization ranking. Nvidia’s valuation changed rapidly as its earnings expectations and share price rose, so its exact position among the largest companies can vary by date.
Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. Its early success centered on 3D graphics for personal computers, while later CUDA software helped make its processors useful for broader parallel-computing workloads.