Nvidia
Nvidia Corporation[a] (/ɛnˈvɪdiə/, en-VID-ee-ə) is an American multinational corporation based in Santa Clara, California. It makes graphical processing technologies for computers and for mobile devices like smartphones. The company supplies electronic chips for motherboard chipsets, smartphone graphic controllers, graphics processing units (GPUs) and game consoles. Nvidia's product lines include GeForce (consumer GPUs), Quadro (professional GPUs), and nForce (chipsets).
 Headquarters at Santa Clara in 2023 | |
| Company type | Public |
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| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Total equity |  US$9.342 billion (2018)[1] |
| Subsidiaries | Nvidia Advanced Rendering Center Mellanox Technologies After proposed acquisition: Arm Ltd. (90%) |
| Website | www |
In 2025 at $4 trillion it was the world's most valuable chipmaker.[2] Demand for its artificial intelligence (AI) chips more than doubled its income in 2023.[source?] Its stock market value jumped to more than $2 trillion.[3] At $4.638 trillion in December 25 2025, Nvidia became the world's largest public company.[4]
Name
"Nvidia" is a combination of two parts: n (usually used as a mathematical variable) and video (Latin: to "see").
History
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Nvidia was started in 1993 by Jen-Hsun Huang, Curtis Priem, and Chris Malachowsky. In 2000 Nvidia took intellectual possession of 3dfx, one of the biggest GPU producers in the 1990s.
On December 14, 2005, Nvidia bought ULI. At that time ULI supplied 30% Southbridge parts for chipsets to ATI, Nvidia's competitor. In March 2006, Nvidia bought the company Hybrid Graphics.[5] On January 5, 2007, the company announced their acquisition of PortalPlayer, Inc.[6]
In December 2006, Nvidia, along with its main rival in the graphics industry Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), received subpoenas from the Justice Department. This was regarding possible antitrust violations in the graphics card industry.[7]
Forbes magazine called Nvidia "Company of the Year for 2007" for accomplishing its company goals in the last 5 years.[8]
Products
- NV1 – Nvidia's first product; based on quadratic surfaces
- RIVA 128 and RIVA 128ZX – DirectX 5 support, OpenGL 1 support; Nvidia's first DirectX-compliant hardware
- RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2 – DirectX 6 support, OpenGL 1 support; the series that made Nvidia a market-leader
- Nvidia GeForce – desktop graphics acceleration solutions
- Nvidia Quadro – high-quality workstation solutions
- Nvidia Tesla – dedicated GPGPU processing for High Performance Computing systems
- Nvidia GoForce – media processors for PDAs, smartphones, and mobile phones featuring nPower technology
- H100 AI processor
- GPUs for game consoles:
- Xbox – GeForce 3-class GPU (on an Intel Pentium III/Celeron platform)
- PlayStation 3 – RSX 'Reality Synthesizer'
Nvidia Media
The Denny's roadside diner in San Jose, California, where Nvidia's three co-founders agreed to start the company in late 1992
Nvidia's former headquarters which was home to the company through most of its pre-AI period (still in use)
Aerial view of Endeavor, the first of the two new Nvidia headquarters buildings, in Santa Clara, California, in 2017
Entrance of Endeavor headquarters building in 2018
Nvidia Yokneam office (former Mellanox Technologies) in Yokneam Illit, Israel, in March 2023
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, part of the RTX 20 series, which is the first generation of Nvidia RTX
Nvidia stock price (1999–2026)
A Shield Tablet with its accompanying input pen (left) and gamepad
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Notes
- ↑ Stylized in capital letters with a lowercase "n" in its logo
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2019. nvidianews.nvidia.com (February 2016)Nvidia News.
- ↑ Hille, Kathrin; Liu, Qianer (2023-08-23). "Supply chain shortages delay tech sector’s AI bonanza". Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/c7e9cfa9-3f68-47d3-92fc-7cf85bcb73b3. Retrieved 2023-08-23.
- ↑ "Artificial intelligence chip giant Nvidia sees sales more than double" (in en-GB). BBC News. 2023-08-24. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66601716. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
- ↑ Hur, Krystal. Nvidia surpasses Microsoft to become the largest public company in the world (in en). CNN (2024-06-18). Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ↑ The Register Hardware news: Nvidia acquires Hybrid Graphics Archived 2007-12-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Press Release: NVIDIA acquires PortalPlayer, dated January 5, 2007.
- ↑ Justice Dept. subpoenas AMD, Nvidia (2006-12-01)New York Times. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
- ↑ Brian Caulfield. Shoot to Kill (January 7, 2008)Forbes.com. Retrieved December 26, 2007.
Other websites
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- Nvidia Developer website
- Business data for Nvidia: Google Finance
- Yahoo! Finance
- Bloomberg
- Reuters
- SEC filings