Newshot NVIDIA
Also written as：英伟达 / Nvidia / 辉达
American fabless semiconductor company that designs GPUs and now supplies much of the world's AI computing capacity. Founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
NVIDIA is a fabless semiconductor company: it designs chips and outsources manufacturing. Its best-known lines are GeForce for gamers, Quadro for professional workstations and Tesla for servers and high-performance computing. What carried it to the top of the world's most valuable companies was not graphics but the use of those GPUs for AI training and inference, together with the CUDA software ecosystem built around them.
History
The company was incorporated in April 1993 with US$600 of capital; Sequoia funding paid for the first hires and the first chip. It listed on Nasdaq in 1999, the same year the GeForce line launched. For more than a decade revenue came mostly from PC graphics cards; CUDA, introduced in 2006, made GPUs usable for general-purpose computing and set up the deep-learning wave.
From 2023, demand for training large models lifted both revenue and valuation: market capitalisation passed US$1 trillion in May 2023, US$3 trillion in June 2024, and in October 2025 NVIDIA became the first public company to exceed US$5 trillion.
Business and products
- Gaming and graphics: GeForce cards, plus graphics processors for consoles (the first Xbox, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Switch).
- Data centre and AI: Tesla/data-centre GPUs, NVLink interconnect, InfiniBand networking, DGX-class systems.
- Software: CUDA and its libraries, the main reason developers stay on the hardware.
- Professional visualisation: Quadro/RTX workstation cards.
Leadership change in 2026
On 12 November 2026 the company announced that co-founder, president and CEO Jensen Huang had resigned all roles with immediate effect, that EVP and CFO Colette Kress would serve as interim CEO, and that a search for a permanent successor had begun. NVIDIA said Huang would hold no formal role going forward.