Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation is a multinational technology company based in Santa Clara, California, that was founded 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 (SoC) units for the mobile computing and automotive markets.

Nvidia is the market leader in artificial intelligence hardware and software. Its professional GPU range is employed in workstations for applications in architecture, engineering, and construction, media and entertainment, automotive, scientific research, and manufacturing design. Nvidia also provides an API called CUDA that facilitates the building of massively parallel programs that use GPUs in addition to GPU manufacturing. They are used at supercomputing facilities all around the world. It has lately expanded into the mobile computing business, producing Tegra mobile processors for smartphones and tablets, as well as automotive navigation and entertainment systems. AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and AI accelerator businesses such as Graphcore are among its competitors. It also develops AI-powered audio and video processing applications, for example, Nvidia Maxine.

Nvidia's GPUs are used for edge-to-cloud computing and supercomputers. Nvidia expanded its presence in the gaming industry with its handheld game consoles Shield Portable, Shield Tablet, and Shield TV and its cloud gaming service GeForce Now.

Jensen Huang (CEO as of 2023), a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer who was previously the director of CoreWare at LSI Logic and a microprocessor designer at AMD; Chris Malachowsky, an engineer who worked at Sun Microsystems; and Curtis Priem, a senior staff engineer and graphics chip designer at IBM and Sun Microsystems, founded Nvidia on April 5, 1993.