NVIDIA Corporation was founded by Jen-Hsun Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priemin 1993 with venture capital funding from Sequoia Capital.
The company’s first product was GeForce 256, the first GPU – Graphics Processing Unit – defined as a 3D game accelerator. Based on the success of this product, NVIDIA won the contract to develop graphics for Microsoft’s Xbox, which earned the company a $200 million advance.
Today NVIDIA Corporation’s products generate 2D and 3D graphics used in PCs, video game consoles, and mobile devices. The company has 65% market share for GPUs used in digital games. It’s major brand is Tegra.
NVIDIA Corporation trades publicly on the NASDQ under the ticker symbol NVDA, is a member of the S&P 500, is #589 in the Fortune 1000, has 8,808 employees, and had $4.58 billion in revenue in 2013.
NVIDIA CorporationNVIDIA Corporation was founded by Jen-Hsun Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priemin 1993 with venture capital funding from Sequoia Capital.
The company’s first product was GeForce 256, the first GPU – Graphics Processing Unit – defined as a 3D game accelerator. Based on the success of this product, NVIDIA won the contract to develop graphics for Microsoft’s Xbox, which earned the company a $200 million advance.
Today NVIDIA Corporation’s products generate 2D and 3D graphics used in PCs, video game consoles, and mobile devices. The company has 65% market share for GPUs used in digital games. It’s major brand is Tegra.
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NVIDIA Corporation trades publicly on the NASDQ under the ticker symbol NVDA, is a member of the S&P 500, is #589 in the Fortune 1000, has 8,808 employees, and had $4.58 billion in revenue in 2013.
