NVIDIA

Nvidia Corporation is a global technology leader that has revolutionized computing through its invention and continued advancement of the graphics processing unit (GPU). Founded on April 5, 1993, by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem - who famously started the company from a Denny's booth in East San Jose - Nvidia has grown from a graphics chip company into the dominant force powering the artificial intelligence revolution. The company develops GPUs, systems on chips (SoCs), and APIs for applications spanning gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and automotive markets. In 2024-2025, Nvidia achieved unprecedented success, becoming the first company in history to surpass $4 trillion and then $5 trillion in market capitalization, with a current market cap of approximately $1.47 trillion as of late 2024. The company's financial performance has been extraordinary, with fiscal year 2025 revenue reaching a record $115.2 billion, up 142% year-over-year, driven primarily by explosive demand for AI computing and data center solutions. Nvidia's data center business has become the company's crown jewel, with data center revenue reaching $47.5 billion in fiscal 2024, representing a 216% increase from the previous year. The company commands an overwhelming 92% share of the data center GPU market and roughly 90% of the overall AI chip market, with its H100 and upcoming Blackwell GPUs serving as the foundation for AI development at companies like Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and thousands of others. Jensen Huang, who has served as CEO since inception for over three decades - a tenure described as almost unheard of in Silicon Valley - leads the company with an unconventional management style featuring 60 direct reports and a flat organizational structure that enables rapid innovation. Under his leadership, Nvidia has positioned itself at the heart of the AI boom, with the company's GPUs essential for training and deploying large language models, computer vision systems, and generative AI applications. Beyond data centers, Nvidia continues to dominate PC gaming with its GeForce GPUs, maintains leadership in professional visualization with Quadro and RTX products, and has expanded into automotive computing with its DRIVE platform. The company's CUDA software platform, launched in 2006, created a massive moat by establishing Nvidia GPUs as the standard for parallel computing and AI development. In 2024-2025, Nvidia announced groundbreaking products including the Blackwell GPU architecture with 208 billion transistors, DGX Spark (the world's smallest AI supercomputer), and DLSS 4 technology now available in over 100 games. The company has also unveiled innovative AI models like Fugatto for audio generation and Apollo for computational engineering. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Nvidia maintains operations globally and has been recognized by Time magazine's 2024 list of most influential people (Jensen Huang), Forbes as Company of the Year in 2007, and continues to set benchmarks for innovation in computing, AI, and gaming technology.