NVIDIA History

A Timeline of Innovation

For more than 30 years, scientists, researchers, developers, and creators have been using NVIDIA technology to do amazing things. More than 3.8 million developers now create thousands of applications for accelerated computing. More than 35,000 companies use NVIDIA AI technologies, with 13,000 global startups in NVIDIA Inception.

1993

3D Graphics

Founded on April 5, 1993, by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, with a vision to bring 3D graphics to the gaming and multimedia markets.

1999

GPU

Invents the GPU, the graphics processing unit, which sets the stage to reshape the computing industry.

2006

CUDA

Opens parallel processing capabilities of GPUs to science and research with unveiling of CUDA® architecture.

Siemens

2012

AI

Sparks the era of modern AI by powering the breakthrough AlexNet neural network.

2018

RTX

Reinvents computer graphics with NVIDIA RTX™, the first GPU capable of real-time ray tracing.

2022

Omniverse

Plays a foundational role in the building of the metaverse, the next stage of the internet, with the NVIDIA Omniverse™ platform.

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