Nvidia
Nvidia Corporation[a] (/ɛnˈvɪdiə/, en-VID-ee-ə) is an American multinational corporation. It is based in Santa Clara, California. They make graphical processing technologies for computers and mobile devices like smartphones. The company supplies electronic chips for motherboard chipsets, smartphone graphic controllers, graphics processing units, and game consoles. Nvidia product lines include: GeForce, Quadro, and nForce (chipsets).
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| Company type | Public |
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| Founded | April 5, 1993 |
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| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Revenue |  US$11.7 billion (2019)[1] |
| US$3.804 billion (2018)[1] | |
| US$4.141 billion (2018)[1] | |
| Total assets | US$13.292 billion (2018)[1] |
| Total equity | US$9.342 billion (2018)[1] |
Number of employees | 18,100 (October 2020)[1] |
| Subsidiaries | Nvidia Advanced Rendering Center Mellanox Technologies After proposed acquisition: Arm Ltd. (90%) |
| Website | www |
In 2023 it was said to be the world’s most valuable chipmaker.[2] Demand for its artificial intelligence (AI) chips more than doubled its income in 2023. Its stock market value jumped to more than $1 trillion.[3]
Name
"Nvidia" is a combination of two parts: n (usually used as a mathematical variable) and video (Latin: to "see").
History
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.[4] On January 5, 2007, the company announced their acquisition of PortalPlayer, Inc.[5]
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.[6]
Forbes magazine called Nvidia "Company of the Year for 2007" for accomplishing its company goals in the last 5 years.[7]
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'
