Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation (, ) 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).

In 2025 at $4 trillion it was the world's most valuable chipmaker. Demand for its artificial intelligence (AI) chips more than doubled its income in 2023. Its stock market value jumped to more than $2 trillion. At $4.638 trillion in December 25 2025, Nvidia became the world's largest public company.

 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.The Register Hardware news: Nvidia acquires Hybrid Graphics  On January 5, 2007, the company announced their acquisition of PortalPlayer, Inc.Press Release: NVIDIA acquires PortalPlayer, dated January 5, 2007.

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.

Forbes magazine called Nvidia "Company of the Year for 2007" for accomplishing its company goals in the last 5 years.

 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'

 Notes

 References 

 Other websites 


 Nvidia Developer website

Category:American computer hardware manufacturers
Category:1993 establishments in California
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Category:Santa Clara, California