Nvidia.com Biography & Web Analysis

Nvidia Corporation is a company that makes graphics cards. is an American international technology corporation established in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware. It is a software and fabless firm that creates graphics processing units (GPUs), application programming interfaces (APIs) for data science and high-performance computing, and system on a chip units (SoCs) for mobile computing and automotive applications.

Nvidia has grown its influence in the gaming sector with its handheld game consoles Shield Portable, Shield Tablet, and Shield Android TV, as well as its cloud gaming service GeForce Now. Its professional GPUs are used in workstations for applications in architecture, engineering, and construction, media and entertainment, automotive, scientific research, and manufacturing design, among other sectors.

In addition to GPU manufacture, Nvidia offers a CUDA API that allows massively parallel programs to be written using GPUs. They're used at supercomputing facilities all around the world. It has lately expanded into the mobile computing sector, producing Tegra mobile processors for smartphones and tablets, as well as navigation and entertainment systems for vehicles. Intel and Qualcomm are among its competitors, in addition to AMD.

On September 13, 2020, Nvidia announced plans to buy Arm Ltd. from SoftBank for US$40 billion in stock and cash, subject to regulatory approval. This would be the largest semiconductor acquisition to date. Nvidia will be acquired by SoftBank Group for somewhat less than a 10% interest, and Arm's headquarters will remain in Cambridge.

Faced with rising regulatory barriers, Nvidia announced on February 7, 2022 that it was canceling its acquisition of Arm. At the time of its collapse, the deal, which would have been the largest in the semiconductor industry's history, was valued at $66 billion.

Jensen Huang (CEO as of 2022), a Taiwanese-American who was previously director of CoreWare at LSI Logic and a microprocessor designer at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Chris Malachowsky, an electrical engineer who worked at Sun Microsystems, and Curtis Priem, a senior staff engineer and graphics chip designer at Sun Microsystems, founded Nvidia on April 5, 1993.

The three co-founders believed that accelerated or graphics-based computing was the way to go for the next wave of computing in 1993 because it could solve problems that general-purpose computer couldn't. They also noticed that video games were one of the most computationally difficult problems while also having a massive sales volume. Video games became the company's flywheel, propelling it to new heights in terms of market penetration and funding tremendous R&D to solve massive computational issues. The company was founded with only $40,000 in the bank.

Sequoia Capital and others contributed $20 million in venture capital funding to the startup. Nvidia had no name at first, so the co-founders dubbed all of their files NV, as in "next version." The co-founders needed to incorporate the company, so they looked up all terms that started with those two letters, which led them to "invidia," the Latin word for "envy." On January 22, 1999, Nvidia went public.