Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation[lower-alpha 1] (/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).

Nvidia Corporation
TypePublic
Industry
FoundedApril 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
RevenueIncrease US$11.7 billion (2019)[1]
Increase US$3.804 billion (2018)[1]
Increase US$4.141 billion (2018)[1]
Total assetsIncrease US$13.292 billion (2018)[1]
Total equityIncrease US$9.342 billion (2018)[1]
Number of employees
18,100 (October 2020)[1]
SubsidiariesNvidia Advanced Rendering Center
Mellanox Technologies
After proposed acquisition: Arm Ltd. (90%)
Websitewww.nvidia.com

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.[2] On January 5, 2007, the company announced their acquisition of PortalPlayer, Inc.[3]

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.[4]

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

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)

Footnotes

References
  1. "NVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2019". nvidianews.nvidia.com. Nvidia. February 2016.
  2. The Register Hardware news: Nvidia acquires Hybrid Graphics Archived 2007-12-13 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Press Release: NVIDIA acquires PortalPlayer, dated January 5, 2007.
  4. "Justice Dept. subpoenas AMD, Nvidia". New York Times. December 1, 2006. Archived from the original on January 25, 2008. Retrieved January 8, 2008.
  5. Brian Caulfield (January 7, 2008). "Shoot to Kill". Forbes.com. Archived from the original on June 5, 2008. Retrieved December 26, 2007.

Notes
  1. Stylized in capital letters with a lowercase "n" in its logo.

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