NVIDIA (NVIDIA Corporation, NASDAQ: NVDA, officially NVIDIA), founded in January 1993, is a semiconductor company that designs display chips and motherboard chipsets. nVIDIA also designs cores for gaming consoles such as the Xbox and PlayStation?3. nVIDIA is best known for its GeForce line of graphics cards for gaming, and its Quadro line of graphics cards for professional workstations, as well as for servers and high-performance workstations. nVIDIA is best known for its GeForce line of graphics cards for gaming, the Quadro line of graphics cards for professional workstations, and the Tesla line of graphics cards for servers and high-performance computing. nVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. nVIDIA is a fabless (Fabless) company. It is a fabless IC semiconductor design company." NVIDIA" is pronounced like the English word "video" and is similar to the Spanish word evidia ("envy").
On May 30, 2018, NVIDIA announced the launch of NVIDIA HGX-2, the first unified computing platform for both artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, and in July 2018, NVIDIA launched an autonomous driving partnership with Bosch Daimler.
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NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is the world leader in programmable graphics processing technology. Along with ATI (since acquired by AMD), it focuses on building products that enhance the human-computer interaction experience on personal and professional computing platforms. The company's graphics and communications processors have a broad market presence and have been adopted by a wide variety of computing platforms, including personal digital media PCs, business PCs, professional workstations, digital content creation systems, laptops, military navigation systems, and video game consoles, among others.With more than 4,000 employees worldwide, NVIDIA specializes in building products for computing, consumer electronics and mobile devices that can transform entire industries with innovative products. These product families are transforming visually rich and compute-intensive applications such as video games, the motion picture industry, broadcasting, industrial design, fiscal modeling, space exploration, and medical imaging.
In addition, NVIDIA is committed to developing and delivering industry-leading technologies, including NVIDIA?SLI, a revolutionary technology that provides the flexibility to dramatically improve system performance, and NVIDIA?PureVideo, a high-definition video technology.
NVIDIA and AMD currently supply the majority of discrete graphics cards on the market, with NVIDIA's best-known GeForce graphics processor line debuting in 1999. The GeForce product line has expanded to cover both desktop and mobile computers. For handheld devices, NVIDIA has the Tegra product line. It provides high performance while maintaining low power consumption. These products are typically used in wireless communication devices.