Nvidia
Nvidia Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware. It is a software and fabless company which designs and supplies graphics processing units (GPUs), application programming interfaces (APIs) for data science and high-performance computing, as well as system on a chip units (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market. Nvidia is also a dominant supplier of artificial intelligence (AI) hardware and software.
Some of the key events about Nvidia
- 1993Founded as a graphics chip company in Santa Clara, California
- 1998Faced a class-action lawsuit over defective graphics chips in laptops
- 1999Released the GeForce 256, the world's first GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)
- 2001Introduced the nForce chipset, expanding into the motherboard market
- 2002Paid $70.7 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit alleging financial misstatements
- 2006Acquired PortalPlayer, entering the handheld device market
- 2007Launched CUDA, a parallel computing platform and programming model
- 2008Introduced the Tesla GPU computing product line for high-performance computing
- 2008Agreed to pay $850,000 to settle charges of option backdating
- 2009Paid $5.5 million to settle antitrust allegations related to graphics chips
- 2011Discovered a major security flaw in its Tegra chipsets
- 2014Unveiled the NVIDIA DRIVE automotive platform for autonomous vehicles
- 2015Recalled Shield tablets due to fire hazard from overheating batteries
- 2016Released the Pascal GPU architecture, significantly improving performance and efficiency
- 2018Introduced the Turing GPU architecture with real-time ray tracing capabilities
- 2018Faced criticism for inadequate disclosure of cryptocurrency mining impact on financial results
- 2019Agreed to pay $5.5 million to settle charges of inadequate disclosures about cryptomining
- 2020Completed the acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, expanding into data center networking
- 2020Faced backlash for artificially limiting mining capabilities on RTX 3060 graphics cards
- 2022Fined $5.5 million by SEC for inadequate disclosures about cryptomining's impact on gaming business
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