NVIDIA Corporation

About NVIDIA Corporation

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by NVIDIA Corporation

All products by NVIDIA Corporation reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

NVIDIA Deep Learning InstituteAI Education & Training

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From $30/mo8.2/10

How Our Review Panel Scores NVIDIA Corporation

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Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who NVIDIA Corporation competes with, and how they differ.

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AMD

AMD is NVIDIA's most direct rival in both gaming GPUs and data-center AI accelerators, shipping the Instinct MI300/MI350 series against NVIDIA's H100/H200/Blackwell lineup at typically lower list prices, though it trails NVIDIA in software ecosystem lock-in via CUDA.

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Intel

Intel competes on the CPU side that pairs with NVIDIA GPUs in servers, and has pushed into AI accelerators with its Gaudi line and discrete GPUs (Arc), though its AI-accelerator market share remains far smaller than NVIDIA's.

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Broadcom

Broadcom designs custom AI ASICs (e.g. Google's TPU, Meta's MTIA) for hyperscalers seeking an alternative to merchant NVIDIA GPUs, competing on total-cost-of-ownership for large training/inference clusters rather than on general-purpose programmability.

Google Cloud7.8/10

Google Cloud offers its own custom Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) as a first-party alternative to NVIDIA GPU instances for AI training and inference, reducing customer dependence on NVIDIA hardware within Google's own cloud.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Amazon Web Services8.3/10

AWS designs its own Trainium and Inferentia AI chips as lower-cost, in-house alternatives to NVIDIA GPU instances on its cloud, competing directly for large training and inference workloads run by AWS customers.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Groq7.7/10

Groq built a custom LPU (Language Processing Unit) architecture specialized for low-latency LLM inference, competing with NVIDIA GPUs specifically on inference speed and price-per-token rather than training workloads.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in NVIDIA Corporation's history, with sources.

1. Oct 29, 2025Milestone

   Market cap tops $5 trillion, first company ever

   NVIDIA closed above a $5 trillion market capitalization ($5.03 trillion), the first publicly traded company to do so, three months after crossing $4 trillion, driven by AI-chip demand and Blackwell sales guidance.

   techcrunch.com
2. Jul 9, 2025Milestone

   Market cap tops $4 trillion, first company ever

   NVIDIA became the first publicly traded company to reach a $4 trillion market capitalization, extending its lead over Apple, Microsoft and Alphabet.

   fool.com
3. Jun 5, 2024Milestone

   Market cap surpasses $3 trillion, overtakes Apple

   NVIDIA's market cap crossed $3 trillion intraday and closed at $3.019 trillion versus Apple's $2.99 trillion, making it the second-most valuable public company behind Microsoft; it completed a 10-for-1 stock split two days later.

   cnbc.com
4. Feb 23, 2024Milestone

   Market cap briefly tops $2 trillion

   NVIDIA became the third U.S. company after Apple and Microsoft to briefly touch a $2 trillion market cap, following a blowout Q4 FY24 earnings report ($22.10B revenue, +265% YoY).

   cnbc.com
5. May 30, 2023Milestone

   Market cap crosses $1 trillion for the first time

   NVIDIA became the first chipmaker to cross a $1 trillion market capitalization intraday, driven by AI enthusiasm following a blowout earnings report; shares closed valuing the company near $990 billion that day.

   cnbc.com
6. Feb 7, 2022Milestone

   NVIDIA and SoftBank terminate $40B Arm acquisition

   NVIDIA and SoftBank terminated NVIDIA's planned $40 billion acquisition of Arm Limited (announced September 13, 2020) after sustained opposition from the FTC, EU and UK competition regulators; SoftBank retained NVIDIA's $1.25 billion prepayment.

   nvidianews.nvidia.com
7. Apr 27, 2020Acquisition

   Completes $7B acquisition of Mellanox Technologies

   NVIDIA closed its acquisition of Israeli networking company Mellanox Technologies for a transaction value of $7 billion, its largest purchase to date, expanding into data-center interconnects.

   nvidianews.nvidia.com
8. 2012Milestone

   AlexNet, trained on NVIDIA GPUs, wins ImageNet and sparks the deep-learning boom

   AlexNet, a convolutional neural network trained on NVIDIA GPUs, won the ImageNet competition by a wide margin, a result widely credited with igniting the modern deep-learning era and NVIDIA's pivot toward AI computing.

   nvidia.com
9. November 2006Launch

   Launches CUDA, opening GPUs to general-purpose computing

   NVIDIA introduced CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) alongside the GeForce 8800 GTX, letting developers write general-purpose parallel code for GPUs beyond graphics -- the foundation of NVIDIA's later AI-computing business.

   docs.nvidia.com
10. Aug 31, 1999Launch

    Launches GeForce 256, marketed as the world's first GPU

    NVIDIA announced the GeForce 256, which it marketed as the first GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), a term NVIDIA coined; it shipped in October 1999 with hardware transform-and-lighting.

    en.wikipedia.org
11. Jan 22, 1999Milestone

    IPOs on Nasdaq

    NVIDIA held its initial public offering on Nasdaq under ticker NVDA at $12 per share.

    en.wikipedia.org
12. Apr 5, 1993Founded

    NVIDIA founded

    NVIDIA was founded by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem to bring 3D graphics to the gaming and multimedia markets.

    nvidia.com