Nvidia (Nvidia Corporation) is a Santa Clara, California-based company. Nvidia was founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem and Chris Malachowsky. Nvidia has nearly 12000 people worldwide and 5000 in Silicon Valley.
Nvidia manufactures GPUs (Graphic Processing Units) for gaming and professional markets, along with laptops and drivers. The company's main product line, "GeForce" as well as its products in the gaming industry (along with handheld Shield Portable, AndroidTV, and Tablet) are its main products. GeForce is the world's largest gaming platform and NVIDIA DRIVE™ is Nvidia's scalable AI car platform. Nvidia also designs a "GameWorks" software for photorealistic gaming.
Nvidia also designs SOCs (Systems on a Chip) for the automotive and computing markets.
Timeline
Nvidia's $40BN acquisition of UK-based Arm was announced September 2020 but remains to be cleared by regulators.
Nvidia has today brought to market the first gaming-oriented GPU to feature the company's Ampere architecture: The RTX 3080 Founders Edition is available to order now for £649 ($699 in the US), with custom variants from Nvidia's partners expected to go on sale tomorrow.
Sale comes four years after Masayoshi Son bought the chip designer.
Funding rounds
Acquisitions
Invested in
Patents
Funding Rounds Participated In
People
Avi Parshan
Investor
Chris Malachowsky
Founder
Ditmar Haist
Investor
Egor Gurjev
Partner
Gaylaird Christopher
Investor
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
News
References
Software
Venture capital firm
CompanyCompany attributes
Semiconductor
Consumer electronics
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Computer hardware
AI video compression
Edge computing
Computer Vision
Santa Clara, California
New York City
B2C
Jensen Huang
Fidelity Investments
BlackRock
3dfx Interactive
Nvidia GPU Ventures
ARM Holdings
Mellanox Technologies
Delaware
SoftBank Vision Fund
DARPA
Sequoia Capital
Krisp (company)
Advanced Micro Devices
WaveOne
NASDAQVenture Capital Firm attributes
Other attributes
United StatesCategories
Related Topics
Contributors
- 1
Henry Ogolla
Passionate about reading and writing. - 2
Erin Scherfner
loading information... - 3
Rahul Abhyankar
Writer, travel instructor, and computer engineer. - 4
Neelam Jhaveri
Techno Geek + Gamer + Fashionista + Sense of Humor = It's ME - 5
Julius John Villarisco
Every day is a new learning for me, new opportunity every time. Never limit my self, think outside the box. - 6
Carla Faraguna
Golden People and Operations. - 7
Aleksander Holm
Interested in understanding the world we live in. - 8
Melanie Manipula
Helping organize knowledge. - 9
Tanya Knyazeva
Economist - 10
Amy Sar
Data acquisition