| Public | NASDAQ:NVDA |
| Date | 1/99 |
| Raised | |
| Post IPO Valuation |
| Website | nvidia.com |
| Blog | nvidia.com/conten... |
| Category | Consumer Electronics/Devices |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Total | $724M |
| Icera, 5/11 | $367M |
| RayScale, 5/08 | |
| AGEIA Technologies, 2/08 | |
| PortalPlayer, 11/06 | $357M |
| Rocketick | 5/11 |
| Right Hemisphere | 6/05 |
| TOTAL | $25M |
| FUNDING TOTAL | $25M |
| Grant, 8/10 | $25M |
| DEBT | |
| Debt, 1/09 TriplePoint Capital |
Nvidia specializes in the manufacture of graphics-processor technologies for workstations, desktop computers, and mobile devices. The company, based in Santa Clara, California, is a major supplier of integrated circuits used for personal-computer motherboard chipsets, graphics processing units (GPUs), and game-consoles.
| Website | nvidia.com/object/geforce_family... |
| Launch Date | 1999 |
GeForce is one of Nvidia’s graphics chipsets. The first GeForce products were designed and marketed for the high-margin computer gamer community, but later the product’s releases expanded the product line to cover all tiers of the graphics market, from low-end to high-end. As of 2008, there have been ten iterations of the design.
| Website | nvidia.com/page/quadronvs.html |
The Nvidia Quadro is a series of AGP and PCI Express graphics-cards. The cards are usually featured in workstations.
| Website | nvidia.com/object/tesla_computin... |
The Tesla is the third line of Nvidia’s graphics processing unit (GRU). It’s based on the G80 and Quadro and is NVIDIA’s first dedicated general purpose GPU.
