Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA, pronounced /ɛnˈvɪ.di.ə/) is a multinational corporation specializing in the development of graphics processing units and chipset technologies for workstations, personal computers, and mobile devices. Based in Santa Clara, California, the company has become a major supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) such as graphics processing units (GPUs) and chipsets used in graphics cards, and video-game consoles and personal-computer motherboards.

Notable Nvidia product lines include the GeForce series for gaming, the Quadro series for computer aided design and digital content creation on workstations, and the nForce series of integrated motherboard chipsets.

Jen-Hsun Huang (the present[update] CEO), Curtis Priem, and Chris Malachowsky co-founded the company in 1993 with venture-capital funding from Sequoia Capital. [1]

In 2000 Nvidia acquired the intellectual assets of its one-time rival 3dfx, one of the biggest graphics companies of the mid- to late-1990s.

On December 14, 2005, Nvidia acquired ULI Electronics, which at the time supplied third-party Southbridge parts for chipsets to ATI, Nvidia's competitor. In March 2006, Nvidia acquired Hybrid Graphics[2] and on January 5, 2007, it announced that it had completed the acquisition of PortalPlayer, Inc.[3]