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Nvidia was established on the 5th of April 1993 by engineers Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. The three founders met at a Denny's roadside diner in East San Jose during late 1992 to discuss their vision for graphics-based processing.
The company survived near-bankruptcy after Sega president Shoichiro Irimajiri persuaded management to invest $5 million into the struggling startup in 1997. This funding provided six months of operational runway that allowed Nvidia to develop its next product line without collapsing.
As of 2025, Nvidia controlled more than 80% of the market for GPUs used in training and deploying AI models. The company also provided chips for over 75% of the world's TOP500 supercomputers enabling massive parallel program execution.
On the 29th of October 2025, Nvidia became the first entity to hit a market capitalization of $5 trillion. Prior to this milestone the company reached $4 trillion on the 10th of July 2025 and surpassed Microsoft and Apple to become the world's most valuable firm on the 18th of June 2024.
Issues with GeForce GTX 970 specifications emerged when users discovered cards rarely accessed memory beyond the 3.5 GB boundary despite featuring 4 GB total capacity. On the 27th of July 2016, Nvidia agreed to settle class action lawsuits offering $30 refunds for affected purchases while admitting miscommunication about driver updates.