NVIDIA
US chip company that designs GPUs and AI data-centre computing systems
Profile
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- Santa Clara, California
- Founded
- April 1993
- Founders
- Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem
- Type
- Public company listed on Nasdaq (NVDA); incorporated in Delaware
NVIDIA is a company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in the United States. It was founded in April 1993 by three people: Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem. It was first incorporated in California and was reincorporated in Delaware in April 1998. Its shares are listed on the US Nasdaq market under the ticker symbol NVDA. As of October 2026, co-founder Jensen Huang has been chief executive officer (CEO) since the company began.
NVIDIA develops and sells GPUs (graphics processing units, chips that do many calculations at once), together with computer systems, networking equipment and software built around them. It describes itself as 'a data center scale AI infrastructure company'. It does not own chip factories; instead it uses contract manufacturers (foundries) such as TSMC to make its chips. Its business is split into two segments: 'Compute & Networking', covering data-centre computing and networking and automotive technology, and 'Graphics', covering GeForce GPUs for gaming and GPUs for professional workstations. Its customers include major cloud providers, AI model makers, businesses and start-ups, and public-sector bodies.
NVIDIA says it invented the GPU in 1999 and that this sparked the growth of the PC gaming market. In 2006 it introduced CUDA, making the GPU's parallel processing (doing many calculations at the same time) available to a wide range of compute-heavy programs. This parallel processing is used to train and run neural-network AI. For data centres, it launched the Blackwell architecture (a chip design) in 2024. In May 2026 it announced that its newer Vera Rubin platform was ramping into full production, with shipments set to begin that autumn. For gaming, its main products are GeForce RTX GPUs.
Sources for this profile (8) · as of Nov 1, 2026
- NVIDIA Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 25, 2026 · NVIDIA Corporation / U.S. SEC EDGAR
- NVIDIA Corp – Form S-1/A (1998 initial public offering prospectus) · NVIDIA Corporation / U.S. SEC EDGAR
- Jensen Huang – Board of Directors · NVIDIA
- NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang Returns to Denny’s Where NVIDIA Launched a Trillion-Dollar Vision · NVIDIA Blog
- Chris Malachowsky – profile · Computer History Museum
- Jensen Huang started his $2 trillion company Nvidia at a Denny's breakfast booth · CNBC (republished by NBC Connecticut)
- NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2027 (Form 8-K exhibit) · NVIDIA Corporation / U.S. SEC EDGAR
- NVIDIA Vera Rubin Ramps Into Full Production to Power Agentic AI Factories Worldwide · NVIDIA Newsroom
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Records 45
Newest first. Open one to see it with its source.
2026 17
ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and others are taking part in a staggered rollout. The launch put AI run on the device front and center alongside creative work and gaming, but compute performance (TOPS) was not stated
Company-reported, it covers 34 language and script combinations with 2.601 trillion tokens in native scripts plus 224.6 billion in Latin script, and includes 438.4 billion restored tokens kept only where the quality scor
A path has opened for agent runtimes to move from vendor products to foundation-owned standard infrastructure. The key is defining the harness, model and sandbox as swappable slots: if this separation takes hold, the cos
A case of building a public good to prepare for the next outbreak by loading AI-generated predicted structures wholesale into a public database. The starting point of pandemic response shifts from "solving structures thr
The first mainstream release to name agents explicitly as "users" of robot software. The design that lets people and agents call skills through the same interface is the MCP and Skills standardization trend crossing into
An accelerator supplier has begun drawing up certification lists that reach down to a data center's electrical and thermal components. It signals that the bottleneck has moved down from chips to power and cooling, and is
A post in which a vendor formalizes the shift in agent security's center of gravity from model alignment to runtime isolation. Its argument overlaps with AgentKernel, posted on arXiv the same week — give up on defenses a
The key is that the target of self-improvement is the harness configuration, not the model weights — a measurement showing there is still room to cut costs by a third with the same model.
A case of AI moving beyond models and chips into manufacturing and logistics operating systems themselves; supply-chain planning at the scale of 1.3 million parts has become a real target of agentic optimization.
A phase of the sovereign-infrastructure race in which AI infrastructure investment spreads beyond the US and the Middle East into mid-sized Asia-Pacific markets.
The point at which models for judging the authenticity of generated content moved beyond a research topic to be productized as standard components of the broadcast infrastructure stack.
A case of releasing, down to the weights and data, a result that reached the IMO gold-medal range through pure natural-language reasoning without a formal checker — greatly widening the reproducibility of top-level mathe
A supplier's record results become an argument against the bubble thesis
A low-latency unit for agents is integrated into the rack
A skill distribution standard was proposed as a vendor-led open spec, beyond a single project
After the models, the hardware goes open too
Integrates the Vera CPU, Groq 3 LPX, BlueField-4 and Spectrum-6, with agent workloads as an explicit target
2025 13
Non-GPU inference IP is absorbed. Groq continues as an independent company
A combination of about 600 labeled images and domain adaptation on about 1 million unlabeled PCB images. The label efficiency has direct implications for the OSAT floor
The finished form of a three-way structure of cross-investment and purchasing
A release that supports fusing communication and compute at the kernel level, changing how the communication bottleneck in large-scale distributed training and inference is tackled
Inference on 200B models and fine-tuning of 70B models on a desktop; local machines become agent runtimes
The strongest positive evidence that FP4 training actually works. However, it is the vendor's own report, and no independent reproduction has been confirmed
The starting point of the circular-financing debate
Export controls in effect turned into a negotiation over tariffs and revenue sharing
A reversal three months after the de facto ban in April
A precise standardization of 4-bit precision
The start of a platform strategy built less on the model than on a data pipeline bundling Isaac Sim, Cosmos and Omniverse
Explicitly targeted reasoning models, making PD disaggregation, KV routing and autoscaling a vendor standard
Productized synthetic-data and simulation infrastructure for training physical AI
2024 4
A case showing that kernels must be rewritten for a specific generation of silicon. Quantitatively rebutted accuracy concerns about FP8 attention
The data-generation pipeline itself became the product
Exposed, in a standardized way, the gap between advertised and effective context length
A paradigm that treats a whole rack as one giant GPU
2023 2
The first product to put memory capacity and bandwidth, rather than compute, forward as its generational differentiator
Integrated in-flight batching, paged attention and FP8 into the vendor stack
2022 2
As a joint proposal by the three companies, it made FP8 the de facto standard format. A specification agreement that prevented format fragmentation
The turning point that made FP8 training a hardware-supported feature. The first case of software and silicon bound together as one
2019 1
The standard implementation of large-scale model parallelism
2018 1
The layer that made the inside of a node one big GPU. The physical precondition for tensor parallelism becoming practical
2017 2
Broke kernels down into composable parts. FlashAttention, Transformer Engine and many modern attention kernels are built on top of it
The prototype of mixed-precision training. The whole lineage of shrinking precision, FP16→BF16→FP8→FP4, is a variation on these two techniques
2016 1
The standard layer that optimizes all-reduce for the hardware topology. All data-parallel, ZeRO and FSDP training runs on top of it
2014 1
The first layer that spared frameworks from writing their own kernels
2007 1
Lowered the barrier to general-purpose computing on GPUs — the software foundation that all of deep learning later rode on