NVIDIA
Overview
NVIDIA is an American semiconductor company founded in 1993 that primarily develops and sells graphics processing units (GPUs) and high-performance computing technology. In particular, it holds a large share of the graphics card market, and has recently been expanding its technology into various fields such as artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and data centers.
Main content
History
NVIDIA was founded on April 5, 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. Initially, the company developed 2D graphics chips but later began developing 3D graphics technology. In 1999, NVIDIA released its first GeForce graphics processing unit, and subsequently achieved great success in the graphics card market.
Products and technology
NVIDIA's representative products include GeForce graphics cards, Quadro workstation graphics cards, and Tesla GPUs for data centers. NVIDIA also develops various technologies such as artificial intelligence, deep learning, and autonomous vehicles, and provides software platforms including CUDA and cuDNN.
Business areas
NVIDIA operates in various fields such as graphics cards, data centers, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and gaming. In particular, it has achieved significant results in the data center and artificial intelligence fields, and has recently been developing autonomous vehicle technology.
Recent trends
As of 2024-2025, NVIDIA continues to show strength in the graphics card market and has also achieved major results in data centers and artificial intelligence. It is also developing autonomous vehicle technology, and has recently been participating in the development of metaverse platforms.
Related topics
- [[Graphics processing unit]]
- [[Artificial intelligence]]
- [[Autonomous vehicles]]
- [[Data center]]
- [[Metaverse]]