NVIDIA Corporation is an American technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem. It built its early business on graphics processing units (GPUs) for gaming and professional visualization, then became the dominant supplier of the specialized processors used to train and run artificial intelligence and machine learning systems, making it one of the most valuable companies in the world by market capitalization in the 2020s.
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Company TypeAmerican multinational technology company 1 Founded Year HeadquartersSanta Clara, California, U.S. 1 Connections
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A major semiconductor company; classified in the atlas semiconductor-industry.
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1. Wikipedia: NVIDIA Corporation
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is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company develops graphics processing units (GPUs), systems on chips (SoCs), and application programming interfaces (APIs) for data science, high-performance computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and mobile and automotive applications. Founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, Nvidia has been widely described as a Big Tech company.
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