Nvidia Corporation, founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, is a multinational technology company based in Santa Clara, California. It specializes in designing and supplying graphics processing units (GPUs), APIs for data science and high-performance computing, and system on a chip units (SoCs) for mobile computing and the automotive market. Nvidia is a key player in artificial intelligence (AI) hardware and software. The company outsources the manufacturing of its designed hardware.
In late 1992, Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem met and agreed to start the company in a meeting in Denny's roadside diner on Berryessa Road in East San Jose.
On December 31, 1992, Curtis Priem resigned from Sun Microsystems, putting pressure on Huang and Malachowsky to also leave their respective companies to start Nvidia.
On April 5, 1993, Nvidia was founded by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. The initial agreement to start the company was made in late 1992.
In 1993, Nvidia Corporation was founded by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. The company designs and supplies GPUs, APIs, and SoCs, focusing on AI hardware and software, while outsourcing hardware manufacturing.
In early 1993, the three founders of Nvidia began working together on their new startup in Priem's townhouse in Fremont, California.
In 1996, Nvidia laid off more than half of its employees, reducing headcount from 100 to 40, and focused on developing the RIVA 128 graphics accelerator.
In August 1997, Nvidia released the RIVA 128 graphics accelerator. The company had only enough money left for one month's payroll at the time.
In 1998, the release of the RIVA TNT helped solidify Nvidia's reputation as a leader in graphics technology.
Nvidia went public on January 22, 1999.
In late 1999, Nvidia released the GeForce 256 (NV10), its first product expressly marketed as a GPU, which introduced onboard transformation and lighting (T&L) to consumer-level 3D hardware.
In December 2000, Nvidia reached an agreement to acquire the intellectual assets of 3dfx, a pioneer in consumer 3D graphics technology.
After Irimajiri left Sega in 2000, Sega sold its Nvidia stock for $15 million.
In 2000, Nvidia acquired 3dfx's intellectual assets.
In April 2002, Nvidia finalized the acquisition of the intellectual assets of 3dfx.
In July 2002, Nvidia acquired Exluna, a company that made software-rendering tools.
In August 2003, Nvidia acquired MediaQ for approximately US$70 million.
On April 22, 2004, Nvidia acquired iReady, a provider of high-performance TCP offload engines and iSCSI controllers.
In December 2004, Nvidia assisted Sony with the design of the graphics processor (RSX) for the PlayStation 3 game console.
On December 14, 2005, Nvidia acquired ULI Electronics, a supplier of third-party southbridge parts for chipsets to ATI, Nvidia's competitor.
In March 2006, Nvidia acquired Hybrid Graphics.
In December 2006, Nvidia, along with AMD, received subpoenas from the U.S. Department of Justice regarding possible antitrust violations in the graphics card industry.
On January 5, 2007, Nvidia announced that it had completed the acquisition of PortalPlayer, Inc.
In February 2008, Nvidia acquired Ageia, the developer of PhysX, a physics engine and physics processing unit, with plans to integrate PhysX into future GPUs.
In July 2008, Nvidia took a write-down of approximately $200 million due to manufacturing defects causing "abnormal failure rates" in certain mobile chipsets and GPUs.
In September 2008, Nvidia became the subject of a class action lawsuit over defects in its GPUs, which were incorporated into laptops from Apple Inc., Dell, and HP.
In 2009, Nvidia was involved in what was called the "big bang" of deep learning, "as deep-learning neural networks were combined with Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs)".
In 2009, Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) originated in San Jose, California, initially focusing on solving computing challenges through GPUs.
In September 2010, Nvidia reached a settlement to reimburse owners of affected laptops for repairs or replacements related to the faulty GPUs.
On January 10, 2011, Nvidia and Intel signed a six-year, $1.5 billion cross-licensing agreement, ending all litigation between the two companies.
In May 2011, Nvidia announced that it had agreed to acquire Icera, a baseband chip making company in the UK, for $367 million.
In November 2011, Nvidia released its ARM-based system on a chip for mobile devices, Tegra 3, which they claimed featured the first-ever quad-core mobile CPU.
In a 2012 talk, Linus Torvalds criticized Nvidia's approach towards Linux, expressing dissatisfaction with the proprietary nature of Nvidia's drivers.
In January 2013, Nvidia unveiled the Tegra 4, as well as the Nvidia Shield, an Android-based handheld game console powered by the new system on a chip.
In February 2013, Nvidia announced its plans to build a new headquarters consisting of two giant triangle-shaped buildings, reflecting the triangle as a fundamental element in computer graphics.
On July 29, 2013, Nvidia announced that they acquired PGI from STMicroelectronics.
Until September 23, 2013, Nvidia had not published any documentation for its advanced hardware, hindering the development of free and open-source device drivers.
On November 6, 2014, Nvidia prevailed in litigation brought by the trustee of 3dfx's bankruptcy estate, affirming that Nvidia paid fair market value for assets purchased from 3dfx.
In 2014, Nvidia ported the Valve games Portal and Half Life 2 to its Nvidia Shield tablet as Lightspeed Studio. Since 2014, Nvidia has diversified its business focusing on gaming, automotive electronics, and mobile devices.
In 2014, with Maxwell GPUs, Nvidia started to require firmware to unlock all features of its graphics cards.
In February 2015, a class-action lawsuit alleging false advertising was filed against Nvidia and Gigabyte Technology in the U.S. District Court for Northern California, related to the GTX 970.
On February 26, 2015, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang apologized for the GTX 970 incident on Nvidia's official blog.
In April 2016, Nvidia produced the DGX-1 based on an 8 GPU cluster, to improve the ability of users to use deep learning by combining GPUs with integrated deep learning software.
On May 6, 2016, Nvidia unveiled the first GPUs of the GeForce 10 series, the GTX 1080 and 1070, based on the new Pascal microarchitecture. Nvidia claimed that both models outperformed its Maxwell-based Titan X model.
In July 2016, Nvidia agreed to a settlement for a false advertising lawsuit regarding its GTX 970 model, due to limitations preventing it from using all advertised 4 GB of VRAM.
On July 27, 2016, Nvidia agreed to a preliminary settlement of the U.S. class action lawsuit, offering a $30 refund on GTX 970 purchases.
In August 2016, Nvidia gifted its first DGX-1 to OpenAI to help it train larger and more complex AI models with the capability of reducing processing time from six days to two hours.
In November 2016, Google installed Nvidia Tesla K80 and P100 GPU-based virtual machines, which are available through Google Cloud.
In May 2017, Nvidia announced a partnership with Toyota, which would use Nvidia's Drive PX-series artificial intelligence platform for its autonomous vehicles.
In May 2017, Nvidia's Inception Program, which supports AI and data science startups, had 1,300 companies.
In July 2017, Nvidia and Baidu announced a far-reaching AI partnership including cloud computing, autonomous driving, consumer devices, and Baidu's PaddlePaddle. Nvidia's Drive PX 2 AI will be the foundation of Baidu's autonomous-vehicle platform.
On December 7, 2017, Nvidia officially released the Titan V.
As of late 2017, laptops including the GeForce 10 series GPUs that are sufficiently thin have been designated as meeting Nvidia's "Max-Q" design standard.
In 2017, Nvidia's GPUs were brought online at the Riken Center for Advanced Intelligence Project for Fujitsu, leading to a boost in the company's earnings.
First announced in a blog post on March 1, 2018.
As of March 2018, there were 2,800 startups in Nvidia's Inception Program.
On March 27, 2018, Nvidia officially released the Nvidia Quadro GV100.
It was canceled on May 4, 2018.
In May 2018, a thread was started on the Nvidia user forum asking Nvidia to update users about the release of web drivers for its cards installed on legacy Mac Pro machines running macOS Mojave 10.14, to enable graphics acceleration and multiple display monitor capabilities.
In May 2018, researchers at Nvidia's AI department realized a robot can learn to perform a job by observing a person, creating a system usable for controlling next-gen universal robots after revision and testing.
On September 27, 2018, Nvidia officially released the RTX 2080 GPUs.
GTC 2018 attracted over 8400 attendees.
In 2018, Google announced that Nvidia's Tesla P4 graphic cards would be integrated into Google Cloud service's artificial intelligence.
In 2018, Nvidia's chips became popular for cryptomining, the process of obtaining crypto rewards in exchange for verifying transactions on distributed ledgers, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said.
In January 2019, Apple Insider claimed that Apple management "doesn't want Nvidia support in macOS" due to relational issues and Apple's development of its own GPU technology, with no sign of enabling web drivers.
On March 11, 2019, Nvidia announced a deal to buy Mellanox Technologies for $6.9 billion to expand its footprint in the high-performance computing market.
In May 2019, Nvidia announced new RTX Studio laptops that are claimed to be seven times faster than a top-end MacBook Pro in apps like Maya and RedCine-X Pro.
In August 2019, Nvidia announced Minecraft RTX, an official Nvidia-developed patch for the game Minecraft adding real-time DXR ray tracing exclusively to the Windows 10 version of the game.
In 2019, Musk announced at Tesla Autonomy Day that Tesla, Inc. developed its own SoC and full self-driving computer now and would stop using Nvidia hardware for their vehicles.
In Q2 of 2020, Nvidia reported sales of $3.87 billion, which was a 50% rise from the same period in 2019.
On May 14, 2020, Nvidia officially announced their Ampere GPU microarchitecture and the Nvidia A100 GPU accelerator.
In May 2020, Nvidia announced it was acquiring Cumulus Networks, which was then absorbed into Nvidia's networking business unit along with Mellanox.
In May 2020, Nvidia developed an open-source ventilator to address the shortage resulting from the global coronavirus pandemic.
In July 2020, it was reported that Nvidia was in talks with SoftBank to buy Arm, a UK-based chip designer, for $32 billion.
On September 1, 2020, Nvidia officially announced the GeForce 30 series based on the company's new Ampere microarchitecture.
On September 13, 2020, Nvidia announced that they would buy Arm from SoftBank Group for $40 billion, subject to scrutiny, with SoftBank retaining a 10% share of Nvidia.
In September 2020, Nvidia's attempt to acquire Arm from SoftBank was initiated, but the deal was later terminated due to regulatory scrutiny.
In October 2020, Nvidia announced it is retiring its workstation GPU brand Quadro and shifting its product name to Nvidia RTX for future products, manufacturing to be Nvidia Ampere architecture-based.
In October 2020, Nvidia announced its plan to build the Cambridge-1, the most powerful computer in Cambridge, England, with a $100 million investment.
On December 10, 2020, Nvidia informed Steven Walton of Hardware Unboxed that they would no longer receive GeForce Founders Edition graphics card review units due to their focus on rasterization instead of ray tracing.
For the fiscal year 2020, Nvidia reported earnings of US$2.796 billion, with an annual revenue of US$10.918 billion, a decline of 6.8% over the previous fiscal cycle.
GTC 2020 was converted to a digital event and drew roughly 59,000 registrants.
In 2020, Nvidia unveiled "Omniverse", a virtual environment for engineers, and open-sourced Isaac Sim, which uses Omniverse to train robots via physics-based simulations.
In Q2 of 2020, Nvidia reported sales of $3.87 billion, a 50% increase from the same period in 2019, driven by higher demand for computer technology due to the pandemic.
In January 2021, Nvidia's shares traded at over $531 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at over US$328.7 billion.
In July 2021, the Cambridge-1 supercomputer launched with a $100 million investment, to employ AI to support healthcare research.
As of August 2021, Nvidia's Inception Program has surpassed 8,500 members in 90 countries, with cumulative funding of US$60 billion.
In August 2021, the proposed takeover of Arm was stalled after the UK's Competition and Markets Authority raised "significant competition concerns".
In October 2021, the European Commission opened a competition investigation into Nvidia's takeover of Arm.
In February 2022, Nvidia's attempt to acquire Arm from SoftBank was terminated following extended regulatory scrutiny.
In early February 2022, SoftBank and Nvidia announced that they "had agreed not to move forward with the transaction 'because of significant regulatory challenges'" regarding the proposed takeover of Arm.
On March 15, 2022, the investigation regarding Arm acquisition was set to end. That same month, Nvidia was reportedly compromised by a cyberattack.
In March 2022, Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang mentioned that they are open to having Intel manufacture their chips in the future.
In April 2022, it was reported that Nvidia planned to open a new research center in Yerevan, Armenia.
On May 12, 2022, Nvidia announced that they are opensourcing their GPU kernel modules.
According to a statement made by the SEC in May 2022, Nvidia agreed to pay $5.5 million to settle civil charges for failing to disclose that cryptomining was a significant element of its revenue growth from sales of gaming chips.
In May 2022, Nvidia opened Voyager, the second of the two giant buildings at its new headquarters complex.
In September 2022, Nvidia announced a collaboration with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard related to Nvidia's Clara healthcare software suite, including Parabricks and MONAI.
In September 2022, Nvidia announced its next-generation automotive-grade chip, Drive Thor.
Following U.S. Department of Commerce regulations in October 2022, Nvidia saw its data center chip added to the export control list.
In May 2023, Nvidia's market valuation crossed $1 trillion during trading hours, and grew to $1.2 trillion by the following November. For its strength, size and market capitalization, Nvidia has been selected to be one of Bloomberg's "Magnificent Seven", the seven biggest companies on the stock market in these regards.
In September 2023, Getty Images announced that it was partnering with Nvidia to launch Generative AI by Getty Images, a new tool that lets people create images using Getty's library of licensed photos.
On September 26, 2023, Denny's CEO Kelli Valade joined Huang in East San Jose to celebrate the founding of Nvidia at Denny's, marking the corner booth as the birthplace of a $1 trillion company.
In October 2023, it was reported that Nvidia had quietly begun designing ARM-based central processing units (CPUs) for Microsoft's Windows operating system.
In 2023, Nvidia became the seventh public U.S. company to be valued at over $1 trillion, driven by growing demand for data center chips with AI capabilities.
In 2023, Support for Nvidia's firmware was implemented in nouveau, which allows proper power management and GPU reclocking for Turing and newer graphics card generations.
In the second quarter of 2023, Nvidia held a market share of 80.2% in global sales of discrete desktop GPUs. Nvidia also expanded its gaming presence with products like Shield Portable, Shield Tablet, Shield TV, and the GeForce Now cloud gaming service.
As of January 2024, Raymond James Financial analysts estimated that Nvidia was selling the H100 GPU in the price range of $25,000 to $30,000 each, while on eBay, individual H100s cost over $40,000.
In January 2024, Forbes reported that Nvidia has increased its lobbying presence in Washington, D.C. as American lawmakers consider proposals to regulate artificial intelligence.
In February 2024, it was reported that Nvidia was the "hot employer" in Silicon Valley because it was offering interesting work and good pay at a time when other tech employers were downsizing.
On March 1, 2024, Nvidia became the third company in the history of the United States to close with a market capitalization in excess of $2 trillion.
After several years of remote-only events, Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) returned to an in-person format in San Jose, California, in March 2024.
As of March 2024 consists of Nvidia's key management.
In June 2024, Nvidia briefly surpassed Microsoft as the world's most valuable publicly traded company, reaching a market capitalization of over $3.3 trillion.
In June 2024, Trend Micro announced a partnership with Nvidia to develop AI-driven security tools, notably to protect the data centers where AI workloads are processed.
In June 2024, the Justice Department (DOJ) began antitrust investigations into Nvidia, focusing on their influence in the AI industry.
In October 2024, Nvidia introduced a family of open-source multimodal large language models called NVLM 1.0, which features a flagship version with 72 billion parameters, designed to improve text-only performance after multimodal training.
In November 2024, Morgan Stanley reported that "the entire 2025 production" of all of Nvidia's Blackwell chips was "already sold out".
In November 2024, Nvidia was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
In November 2024, the company bought 1.2 million shares of Nebius Group.
As of November 2024, Nvidia's board consisted of specific directors (not named in the provided text).
As of late Q3 2024, Nvidia's market cap is around US$2.98 trillion.
In 2024, Nvidia CEO Huang oriented the company's focus towards humanoid robots and self-driving cars, anticipating their widespread adoption.
In 2024, Nvidia was ranked #3 on Forbes' "Best Places to Work" list.
In early 2024, the company's 10 largest shareholders were determined (but not listed in the provided text).
In January 2025, Nvidia experienced the largest one-day loss in market capitalization for a U.S. company in history at $600 billion due to DeepSeek's advanced AI model.
As of 2025, Jensen Huang remains the CEO of Nvidia.
In 2018, Google announced that Nvidia's Tesla P4 graphic cards would be integrated into Google Cloud service's artificial intelligence.
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