Nvidia was founded on April 5, 1993, by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, The company is headquartered in Santa Clara.

Nvidia is a global corporation that manufactures graphics processors, mobile technologies, and desktop computers.

The company is known as a market leader in the design of graphics processing units, or GPUs, for the gaming market, and also systems on chips, or SOCs, for the mobile computing and automotive markets.

Besides manufacturing, Nvidia also provides parallel processing capabilities to researchers and scientists that allow them to efficiently run high-performance applications. Recently, the company has moved into the mobile computing market, where it produces Tegra mobile processors for smartphones and tablets as well as vehicle navigation and entertainment systems.

In 2007, NVIDIA was honoured as Company of the Year by Forbes magazine for its rapid growth and success.

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