Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation

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Headquarters at Santa Clara in 2018
Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: NVDA NASDAQ-100 component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component
Industry	Semiconductors Artificial intelligence Video games Consumer electronics Computer hardware
Founded	April 5, 1993 (1993-04-05)
Founders	Jensen Huang Curtis Priem Chris Malachowsky
Headquarters	Santa Clara, California , U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Jensen Huang (president​ & CEO) Colette M. Kress (CFO)
Products	Graphics processing units (GPU) Central processing units (CPU) Chipsets Drivers Tablet computers TV accessories Automotives
Revenue	US$11.7 billion (2019)
Operating income	US$3.804 billion (2018)
Net income	US$4.141 billion (2018)
Total assets	US$13.292 billion (2018)
Total equity	US$9.342 billion (2018)
Number of employees	18,100 (October 2020)
Subsidiaries	Nvidia Advanced Rendering Center Mellanox Technologies After proposed acquisition: Arm Ltd. (90%)
Website	www.nvidia.com

Nvidia Corporation (/ɛnˈvɪdiə/ en-VID-ee-ə) is an American multinational corporation. They make graphical processing technologies for computers and small mobile devices (for example: smartphones). The company, based in Santa Clara, California, supplies electronic chips for motherboard chipsets, smart phones' graphic controller, graphics processing units (GPUs), and game consoles. Nvidia product lines include: GeForce, Quadro, and nForce (chipsets).

Name

"Nvidia", is a combination of two parts: n (usually used as a mathematical variable) and video (Latin: to "see").

History

Nvidia was established in 1993 by Jen-Hsun Huang, Curtis Priem, and Chris Malachowsky. In 2000 Nvidia took intellectual possession of 3dfx, one of the biggest GPU producers in 1990s.

On December 14, 2005, Nvidia purchased ULI. At that time ULI supplied 30% Southbridge parts for chipsets to ATI), Nvidia's competitor. In March 2006, Nvidia bought the company Hybrid Graphics. On January 5, 2007, the company announced their acquisition of PortalPlayer, Inc.

In December 2006, Nvidia, along with its main rival in the graphics industry Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), received subpoenas from the Justice Department. This was regarding possible antitrust violations in the graphics-card industry.

Forbes magazine called Nvidia "Company of the Year for 2007" for accomplishing company goals in last 5 years.

Products

Graphics chipsets

• NV1 – Nvidia's first product, based on quadratic surfaces
• RIVA 128 and RIVA 128ZX – DirectX 5 support, OpenGL 1 support, Nvidia's first DirectX-compliant hardware
• RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2 – DirectX 6 support, OpenGL 1 support; the series that made Nvidia a market-leader
• Nvidia GeForce - Desktop-graphics acceleration-solutions
• Nvidia Quadro – High-quality workstation solutions
• Nvidia Tesla - Dedicated GPGPU processing for High Performance Computing systems
• Nvidia GoForce – Media processors for PDAs, Smartphones, and mobile phones featuring nPower technology
• GPU for game consoles
  • Xbox GeForce 3 - class GPU (on an Intel Pentium III/Celeron platform)
  • PlayStation 3 - RSX 'Reality Synthesizer'

Personal-computer platforms and chipsets

• Nvidia nForce
  • nForce IGP (AMD Athlon/Duron K7 line)
  • nForce2 (AMD Athlon/Duron K7 line, SPP (system platform processor) or IGP (Integrated Graphics Platform) and MCP (Media and Communications Processor), also features SoundStorm)
  • nForce3 (AMD Athlon 64/Athlon 64 FX/Opteron, MCP only)
  • nForce4 (AMD Athlon 64/Athlon 64 X2/Athlon 64 FX/Opteron, MCP only;Intel Pentium 4/Pentium D, SSP + MCP)
  • nForce 500 (AMD Athlon 64 FX/Athlon 64 X2/Athlon 64/Sempron or Intel Core 2 Extreme/Core 2 Duo/Pentium 4/Celeron D/Pentium D)
  • nForce 600 (AMD Quad FX or Intel Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Extreme/Core 2 Duo/Pentium 4/Celeron D/Pentium D)
  • nForce 700 (Intel Core 2 and AMD Phenom)

Other websites

• nvidia.com – corporate site
• nzone.com - Nvidia's gaming community site