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NVIDIA
NVIDIA is a leading AI infrastructure company providing GPUs, accelerated computing platforms, networking, and software used to train and deploy frontier AI systems.
- Founded 1993
- Headquarters Santa Clara, California, United States
- CEO Jensen Huang
Overview
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Founded
1993
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Headquarters
Santa Clara, California, United States
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Industry
AI Infrastructure
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CEO
Jensen Huang
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Founders
Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem
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Funding
Public company
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Valuation
Public market capitalization varies
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Employees
42,000+
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA is one of the most important companies in the AI economy, supplying the GPUs, networking systems, software libraries, and full-stack computing platforms used to train and run modern artificial intelligence models. Founded in 1993, the company moved from graphics processing into accelerated computing and became a central infrastructure provider for data centers, cloud providers, AI labs, enterprises, autonomous systems, robotics, and scientific computing.
Its AI business spans GPUs, CUDA, DGX systems, networking, inference software, robotics platforms, and domain-specific tools for healthcare, automotive, simulation, and enterprise workloads. As demand for generative AI and agentic systems has expanded, NVIDIA has become a core supplier for the compute layer behind many leading AI products and services.
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Products & Business
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Products & Services
- GPUs
- CUDA
- DGX systems
- Grace Blackwell
- NVIDIA AI Enterprise
- Omniverse
- Jetson
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Platform & Tools
CUDA, cuDNN, TensorRT, NIM microservices, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Omniverse, Isaac, Jetson, and accelerated computing SDKs.
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Revenue Model
Hardware sales, data center systems, cloud partnerships, enterprise software licensing, developer tools, and ecosystem services.
Key Information
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Business Type
Public AI infrastructure and semiconductor company
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Headquarters
Santa Clara, California, United States
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Founded Date
1993
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Company CEO
Jensen Huang
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Founders
Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem
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Brands
GeForce, CUDA, DGX, Blackwell, Grace Blackwell, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Omniverse, Jetson
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Categories
News
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Employee Count
42,000+
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Funding
Public company
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Valuation
Public market capitalization varies
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Ownership
Public
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Stock Ticker
NVDA
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