Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation
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	Headquarters at Santa Clara in 2023
Company type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: NVDA; NASDAQ-100 component; S&P 100 component; S&P 500 component;
Industry	Semiconductors; Artificial intelligence; Video games; Consumer electronics; Computer hardware;
Founded	April 5, 1993; 31 years ago
Founders	Jensen Huang; Curtis Priem; Chris Malachowsky;
Headquarters	Santa Clara, California, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Jensen Huang (president & CEO); Colette M. Kress (CFO);
Products	Graphics processing units (GPUs); Central processing units (CPUs); Chipsets; Drivers; Tablet computers; TV accessories; Automotives;
Revenue	US$11.7 billion (2019)
Operating income	US$3.804 billion (2018)
Net income	US$4.141 billion (2018)
Total assets	US$13.292 billion (2018)
Total equity	US$9.342 billion (2018)
Number of employees	18,100 (October 2020)
Subsidiaries	Nvidia Advanced Rendering Center; Mellanox Technologies ; After proposed acquisition: Arm Ltd. (90%)
Website	www.nvidia.com

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).

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] In June 2024, 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

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'

Footnotes

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. Nvidia News. February 2016.
↑ Hille, Kathrin; Liu, Qianer (August 23, 2023). "Supply chain shortages delay tech sector's AI bonanza". Financial Times. Retrieved August 23, 2023.
↑ "Artificial intelligence chip giant Nvidia sees sales more than double". BBC News. August 24, 2023. Retrieved August 24, 2023.
↑ Hur, Krystal (June 18, 2024). "Nvidia surpasses Microsoft to become the largest public company in the world". CNN. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
↑ 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". New York Times. December 1, 2006. Archived from the original on January 25, 2008. Retrieved January 8, 2008.
↑ Brian Caulfield (January 7, 2008). "Shoot to Kill". Forbes.com. Archived from the original on June 5, 2008. Retrieved December 26, 2007.

Notes

↑ Stylized in capital letters with a lowercase "n" in its logo

Other websites

Official website
Nvidia Developer website
- Business data for Nvidia: Google Finance
- Yahoo! Finance
- Bloomberg
- Reuters
- SEC filings

[10-K-1] 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. Nvidia News. February 2016.

[3] Hille, Kathrin; Liu, Qianer (August 23, 2023). "Supply chain shortages delay tech sector's AI bonanza". Financial Times. Retrieved August 23, 2023.

[4] "Artificial intelligence chip giant Nvidia sees sales more than double". BBC News. August 24, 2023. Retrieved August 24, 2023.

[5] Hur, Krystal (June 18, 2024). "Nvidia surpasses Microsoft to become the largest public company in the world". CNN. Retrieved June 18, 2024.

[6] The Register Hardware news: Nvidia acquires Hybrid Graphics Archived 2007-12-13 at the Wayback Machine

[7] Press Release: NVIDIA acquires PortalPlayer, dated January 5, 2007.

[8] "Justice Dept. subpoenas AMD, Nvidia". New York Times. December 1, 2006. Archived from the original on January 25, 2008. Retrieved January 8, 2008.

[9] Brian Caulfield (January 7, 2008). "Shoot to Kill". Forbes.com. Archived from the original on June 5, 2008. Retrieved December 26, 2007.

[2] Stylized in capital letters with a lowercase "n" in its logo

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