Company Story
1993 - NVIDIA Corporation founded by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem
1995 - NVIDIA releases its first product, the NVIDIA NV1
1997 - NVIDIA goes public with an initial public offering (IPO)
1999 - NVIDIA releases the GeForce 256, the first GPU with integrated transform, clipping, and lighting (TCL)
2000 - NVIDIA acquires Exluna, a company specializing in graphics processing
2002 - NVIDIA releases the GeForce FX, the first GPU with pixel and vertex shaders
2006 - NVIDIA acquires Hybrid Graphics, a company specializing in graphics processing
2007 - NVIDIA releases the GeForce 8 series, the first GPU with CUDA architecture
2010 - NVIDIA releases the Fermi architecture, the first GPU with double-precision floating-point performance
2014 - NVIDIA releases the Maxwell architecture, the first GPU with unified virtual memory
2016 - NVIDIA releases the Pascal architecture, the first GPU with simultaneous multi-procressing
2017 - NVIDIA releases the Volta architecture, the first GPU with tensor cores for AI computing