Nvidia Corporation is a technology company known for designing and manufacturing graphics processing units (GPUs). The company was founded in 1993 by Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang, Curtis Priem and Chris Malachowsky and is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif.
Nvidia’s founders believed that for computer graphics to advance, a dedicated GPU would be needed. Previously, computer games were entirely CPU-based. However, gaming technology was advancing, slowly moving to Windows from MS-DOS. Graphics, especially 3D graphics, were reliant on considerable floating-point math processing, and the math coprocessor in the CPU was simply not enough.
Since establishing itself as the premier graphics chip provider for gaming, Nvidia has expanded into high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). The same gaming processors are used but repurposed for those different computational tasks.
For 2022, the company is projected to report revenues of $26.9 billion.