Nvidia is the semiconductor company founded in 1993 that later became one of the world’s most valuable companies.
Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem founded Nvidia in 1993. The company initially concentrated on graphics processors for personal computers and video games, where faster rendering was a major competitive advantage.
Nvidia’s CUDA software platform helped developers use its GPUs for general-purpose parallel computing. That capability made the chips valuable beyond games, including in scientific research, data centers and artificial-intelligence training.
The company’s market capitalization rose dramatically as demand for AI computing accelerated. Nvidia’s history is therefore a notable example of a company moving from a specialized consumer-hardware market into infrastructure at the center of a major technology shift.