NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and is famous for inventing the graphics processing units (GPUs) in 1999. This invention sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics and revolutionized parallel computing. Fueled by the insatiable demand for better 3D graphics, and the massive scale of the gaming market, NVIDIA has evolved the GPU into a computer brain at the exciting intersection of virtual reality, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence.
Nvidia designs graphics processing units for the gaming, professional markets and enterprise data centers.