Nvidia is the semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, whose stock ticker is NVDA.
Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. It became famous for graphics processing units, or GPUs, originally developed to accelerate computer graphics and video games.
The company’s GPUs later became important in data centers, scientific computing, and artificial-intelligence systems. That expansion dramatically increased investor interest and helped Nvidia become one of the world’s most valuable companies by market capitalization.
NVDA is Nvidia’s ticker symbol on the Nasdaq exchange. Market capitalization is not the same as semiconductor production volume: a company can have a very high market value because investors expect strong future demand, even if another company sells more units in a particular market.