During the past two decades, nvidia (NvdaHe rose to a global conversation.
The semiconductor company is an international pioneer in the design and manufacture of computer chips and has helped in a revolution in the rise of artificial intelligence (AI).
In addition to its strengths in the games, data and fields of artificial intelligence, NVIDIA announced plans in March for a Quantum Research Center in BostonWhere the CEO Jensen Huang said that researchers can address problems from drug detection to the development of substances.
Below is a look at the NVIDIA Road to its place today, from creating game devices to the design of chips that work on artificial intelligence.
On April 5, 1993, Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem Nvidia were founded with an initial focus on design and production of 3D computing and video games.
The first version of the company, the NV1 multimedia processor, did not get the reception in which the founders were hoping. This was a very financial situation that NVIDIA canceled half of its employees, which led to this An informal logo: “Our company is 30 days out of work.”
In addition to the unmistakable NV1 return, the NVIDIA partnership forged with the Japanese video game company SEGA to produce control unit graphics chips, adding to the pressure. However, although it is a pivotal for another chips, Sega I invested $ 5 million in NVIDIA – The financing that allowed NVIDIA to survive outside the work.
Nvidia Jensen Huang CEO during his main show at CES 2025 in Las Vegas on January 6, 2025 (ARTUR Widak/Nurphoto via Getty Images) ·Nurphoto via Getty Images
Despite the financial challenges and a smaller team, NVIDIA released its next segment in 1997. It was successful. RIVA 128 allowed the support of dual and 3D graphics, and more Million units It was sold in the first four months of sales.
With the basis of RIVA 128 sales, NVIDIA RIVA TNT produced, which has strengthened its place in the industry with better quality and photo performance. Two years later, on January 22, 1999NVIDIA has been announced on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at a price of $ 12 per share, and by May, she shipped 10,000,000 Graphics processor.
Later in 1999, Nvidia GeForce 256, describing the world’s first “graphics” unit. By marketing the slide directly to customers instead of including it inside a device or controller, The company encouraged the term “GPU”.
With its ability to divide the greatest tasks into smaller tasks that can work at the same time, known as parallel treatment, GPU processing units have taken the heavy work burden of graphics. The devices were allowed to work on other processing functions faster, which means that GeForce 256 has provided smoother, faster and more realistic graphics.
Finding a growing success in providing graphics processing units for both customers and control units such as Xbox, join NVIDIA to Nasdaq 100 and S & P 500 In 2001.
In 2006, Nafidia I launched KodaA platform that allowed users to access the capabilities of their graphics processing units to run their own program instead of graphics only. From 2006 to 2017, Invest Nvidia Nearly $ 12 billion in research and development with a large part of those money heading towards Koda.
Cuda downloads Entry 2010 SummWhile Cuda provided users the ability to use chips for purposes other than games, it does not appear to be in the beginning of its fruits for investors.
“Some investors were adults in the late first decade of the twentieth century and gave them the benefit of doubt during the first five years of CUDA investment,” acquired “But in mid -2010, the demand for the market still does not appear significantly, and it has become a larger and larger investment,” said Ben Gilbert, the participant in Podcast, in the 2022 episode.
However, subsequent technological developments will make Cuda a very important thing for the company.
“All of our products have made it more expensive because we were selling these gaming cards with a computing acceleration,” Brian Katranzaro, Vice President of Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, told Yahoo Finance. In 2023. “It took a lot of commitment to follow -up … … I would like to say that it was about 10 years ago before Wall Street really started believing that this investment deserves anything.”
In 2012, students used Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever Cuda to train the visible nerve network Alexenet With two NVIDIA graphics processing units.
AlexNet advanced in photo identification showed that the use of graphics processing units to train machine learning models greatly cuts training times compared to the previously used central processing units.
After this progress, NVIDIA started moving its focus on artificial intelligence, with the support of its revenues from the games. By 2016, it announced the DGX-1, a system specifically designed for Deep learning And the large language models that were at high. That year, NVIDIA rises almost Three times In price.
“It is the fate that meets the coincidence,” the CEO of Nafidia Sinsen Huang Yahoo said financing at that time. “People believe that it has been successful overnight, but like most successful successes, it took years for us.”
At the same time, NVIDIA has seen the opportunity to perform strategic acquisitions, such as the wireless company Icera In 2011 and the hardware company Portland Group In 2013, I tried to get the arm of the semiconductor and design company (arm) In 2020, but the deal finally fell after that Organizational concerns.
In March 2022, NVIDIA announced the “Hopper” chip H100, promising Faster training and better performance For artificial intelligence. Control mission The majority of the market share With this graphics processing unit, major companies, including the alphabet (Goog), Amazon (amzn), And microsoft (Msft), Turned into NVIDIA with billions when I started developing AI and data -based products.
Made of prosperity
One of these companies is Openai (OPAI.PVT,, Whose relationship with NVIDIA extends to 2016, when Nvidia The first DGX-1 computers donated To startup. In November 2022, Openai Chatgpt, a language model based on NVIDIA graphics units that quickly reached the main headlines.
In less than two months, Chatgpt set the record for the fastest consumer application in history, according to UBS study, It reaches 100 million active users per month in January 2023.
“The new computing era has started,” said Nvidia’s CEO of Nvidia. In Statement 2023. “Companies all over the world are transferred from general to accelerating computing and ai Toulidi.”
With investors increasingly interested in artificial intelligence and with the continued growth of the demand for graphics processing units on models, NVIDIA’s revenue for a quarter ends in January 2024 More than weak Its results are a year on an annual basis.
After the release of the semester report, NVIDIA had The biggest profit for one day In the history of the stock market, adding a value of $ 277 billion. Then he rated $ 2 trillion the next day. The record will not stand for a long time, however; Nafidia overcame it again after only two months.
In that march, NVIDIA declared its following digital: Blackwell. Submit a higher performance with Low cost and energy consumptionThe chips are designed to work better than previous versions when they are linked to work together in large numbers.
Soon after, Nvidia A announced 10 against 1 division of stocks In June 2024, after the division, Microsoft and Apple passed (Aapl) To become the world’s most valuable company worth $ 3.3 trillion. By November 2024, Added To Dow Jones Industrial Mediterranean.
Despite its successes, NVIDIA also faced challenges throughout its rise. In 2018, I faced a The semester suit On the pretext that investors have not been properly revealed to investors the impact of the cryptocurrency market on revenues from sales of graphics processing units.
At that time, “miners” of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC-Usd) And ethereum (eth-wedGraphics processing units are used to complete transactions and secure new encryption codes. The process requires a great math strength, making NVIDIA GPUS a popular choice. Pay Nafidia a A 5.5 million dollar settlement In 2022 to the Supreme Education Council due to the case, and in December 2024, the Supreme Court refused to appeal NVIDIA, while allowing Case 2018 to follow up.
This was not the first time that NVIDIA has managed legal issues regarding chips. In 2016, she settled a case that has been marketed and actual capabilities GTX 970With batches of $ 30 per purchase.
In addition to legal issues, there is also a challenge to keep pace with the supply with the request. A World Chip Lack It happened for the first time in early 2020 as a result of the Corona virus epidemic and increased dependence on technology to work remotely. Other factors that tallest the shortage until 2023 included the initial trade war between the United States of China, the harsh air events, and the war of Russia Ukraine.
A December 2024 Report From the expected IDC for global demand for artificial intelligence and high performance computing (HPC) grows more than 15 % in 2025.
President Trump announced Stargate project In January 2025, which includes technology companies such as Oracle (Orcl), Openai, and Softbank (SftbyInvesting $ 500 billion in Amnesty International Infrastructure in the United States over the next four years. NVIDIA, as a project technology partner, has seen a jump in its stock, and reached a Market ceiling 3.6 trillion dollars.
Later this month, the Chinese company Deepseek released its artificial intelligence model, which was trained on a A much lower cost From competitors. After this announcement, NVIDIA shares decreased 589 billion dollars, or nearly 17 %, on the occasion The biggest day loss In the history of the stock market.
After the decrease, March 2025 brought the first appearance of Blackwill Ultra from NVIDIA, Blackweell Khalifa. The new slide has been announced 1.5 times Perform the previous slide, which can help artificial intelligence models to answer queries faster.
In April 2025, Trump Export Among the company’s H20 chips to China, because chips like Nvidia are crucial in the race to develop artificial intelligence technologies. In the first quarter report, Nafidia said she expects to miss 8 billion dollars In possible sales due to the ban.
Despite the exported restrictions, NVIDIA continues to grow until Microsoft has a brief time in June as the world’s most valuable company. Some are looking for, even expecting to be The first company up to 4 trillion dollars The maximum market.
((NVIDIA) has truly obtained the Amnesty International Revolution, “she told the Founder of ARK Invest Cati Wood Yahoo Financial Earlier this year“We believe that he is still playing a great role.”
