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== Overview ==

'''Nvidia Corporation''' is an American technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It designs graphics processing units (GPUs) for gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and automotive markets, as well as system‑on‑a‑chip units (SoCs) for mobile computing and automotive. Nvidia is widely known for its [[GeForce]] line of consumer GPUs and the [[CUDA]] parallel computing platform, which has become a key enabler in [[machine learning]] and artificial intelligence.

== History ==

Founded in 1993 by [[Jensen Huang]], Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, Nvidia initially focused on producing graphics chips for personal computers. The release of the RIVA 128 in 1997 marked the company’s first major success. In 1999, Nvidia introduced the GeForce 256, marketed as the world’s first “GPU.” The acquisition of 3dfx’s assets in 2000 helped consolidate the PC graphics market.

During the 2000s, Nvidia expanded into mobile processors with the [[Tegra]] series, and later into high‑performance computing with the CUDA architecture. The rise of deep learning in the 2010s dramatically increased demand for Nvidia’s GPUs, which excel at parallel computations required for training large neural networks. In 2020, Nvidia announced plans to acquire [[ARM Holdings]] from SoftBank, a deal that was ultimately abandoned in 2022 due to regulatory challenges.

== Products ==

* '''GeForce''' – consumer GPUs for gaming and content creation.
* '''Quadro''' – professional workstation GPUs for design and scientific visualization.
* '''Tesla''' and [[Nvidia A100|A100]]/[[H100]] – data center accelerators for AI, HPC, and cloud computing.
* '''Tegra''' – SoCs for embedded systems, automotive infotainment, and [[Nintendo Switch]].
* '''CUDA''' – parallel computing platform and programming model.
* '''nForce''' – motherboard chipsets (discontinued).

== Features ==

* '''Ray tracing''' – hardware‑accelerated real‑time ray tracing via RT cores, introduced in the Turing architecture.
* '''Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS)''' – AI‑based image upscaling technology.
* '''CUDA cores''' – programmable shader cores used for general‑purpose GPU computing.
* '''NVLink''' – high‑speed interconnect for multi‑GPU configurations.
* '''Jetson''' – embedded computing boards for edge AI and robotics.

== See also ==

[[Graphics processing unit]]
[[Advanced Micro Devices]]
[[Intel]]
[[Tensor processing unit]]

== External links ==

[http://www.nvidia.com Official website]

[[Category:Graphics hardware companies]]
[[Category:Semiconductor companies]]
[[Category:Companies based in Santa Clara, California]]