Nvidia

1990

In December 2000, Nvidia reached an agreement to acquire the intellectual assets of its one-time rival 3dfx, a pioneer in consumer 3D graphics technology leading the field from mid 1990s until 2000.

1998

Nvidia went public on January 22, 1999. ===Major releases and acquisitions=== The release of the RIVA TNT in 1998 solidified Nvidia's reputation for developing capable graphics adapters.

1999

Nvidia went public on January 22, 1999. ===Major releases and acquisitions=== The release of the RIVA TNT in 1998 solidified Nvidia's reputation for developing capable graphics adapters.

In late 1999, Nvidia released the GeForce 256 (NV10), most notably introducing on-board transformation and lighting (T&L) to consumer-level 3D hardware.

2000

In the short term this did not matter, and the GeForce2 GTS shipped in the summer of 2000.

In December 2000, Nvidia reached an agreement to acquire the intellectual assets of its one-time rival 3dfx, a pioneer in consumer 3D graphics technology leading the field from mid 1990s until 2000.

2002

The acquisition process was finalized in April 2002. In July 2002, Nvidia acquired Exluna for an undisclosed sum.

2003

In August 2003, Nvidia acquired MediaQ for approximately US$70 million.

2004

On April 22, 2004, Nvidia acquired iReady, also a provider of high performance TCP/IP and iSCSI offload solutions.

In December 2004, it was announced that Nvidia would assist Sony with the design of the graphics processor (RSX) in the PlayStation 3 game console.

2005

On December 14, 2005, Nvidia acquired ULI Electronics, which at the time supplied third-party southbridge parts for chipsets to ATI, Nvidia's competitor.

2006

In March 2006, Nvidia acquired Hybrid Graphics.

In December 2006, Nvidia, along with its main rival in the graphics industry AMD (which had acquired ATI), received subpoenas from the U.S.

2007

Department of Justice regarding possible antitrust violations in the graphics card industry. Forbes named Nvidia its Company of the Year for 2007, citing the accomplishments it made during the said period as well as during the previous five years.

On January 5, 2007, Nvidia announced that it had completed the acquisition of PortalPlayer, Inc.

2008

In February 2008, Nvidia acquired Ageia, developer of the PhysX physics engine and physics processing unit.

In September 2008, Nvidia became the subject of a class action lawsuit over the defects, claiming that the faulty GPUs had been incorporated into certain laptop models manufactured by Apple Inc., Dell, and HP.

2009

It originated in 2009 in San Jose, California, with an initial focus on the potential for solving computing challenges through GPUs.

2010

In September 2010, Nvidia reached a settlement, in which it would reimburse owners of the affected laptops for repairs or, in some cases, replacement.

2011

Nvidia announced that it planned to integrate the PhysX technology into its future GPU products. In November 2011, after initially unveiling it at Mobile World Congress, Nvidia released its Tegra 3 ARM system-on-a-chip for mobile devices.

In May 2011, it was announced that Nvidia had agreed to acquire Icera, a baseband chip making company in the UK, for $367 million.

On January 10, 2011, Nvidia signed a six-year, $1.5 billion cross-licensing agreement with Intel, ending all litigation between the two companies. ===GeForce Partner Program=== The Nvidia GeForce Partner Program was a marketing program designed to provide partnering companies with benefits such as public relations support, video game bundling, and marketing development funds.

2013

In January 2013, Nvidia unveiled the Tegra 4, as well as the Nvidia Shield, an Android-based [game console] powered by the new system-on-chip.

On July 29, 2013, Nvidia announced that they acquired PGI from STMicroelectronics. Since 2014, Nvidia has diversified its business focusing on three markets: gaming, automotive electronics, and mobile devices. On May 6, 2016, Nvidia unveiled the first GPUs of the GeForce 10 series, the GTX 1080 and 1070, based on the company's new Pascal microarchitecture.

2014

On July 29, 2013, Nvidia announced that they acquired PGI from STMicroelectronics. Since 2014, Nvidia has diversified its business focusing on three markets: gaming, automotive electronics, and mobile devices. On May 6, 2016, Nvidia unveiled the first GPUs of the GeForce 10 series, the GTX 1080 and 1070, based on the company's new Pascal microarchitecture.

2016

On July 29, 2013, Nvidia announced that they acquired PGI from STMicroelectronics. Since 2014, Nvidia has diversified its business focusing on three markets: gaming, automotive electronics, and mobile devices. On May 6, 2016, Nvidia unveiled the first GPUs of the GeForce 10 series, the GTX 1080 and 1070, based on the company's new Pascal microarchitecture.

Laptops that include these GPUs and are sufficiently thin – as of late 2017, under  – have been designated as meeting Nvidia's "Max-Q" design standard. In July 2016, Nvidia agreed to a settlement for a false advertising lawsuit regarding its GTX 970 model, as the models were unable to use all of their advertised 4 GB of RAM due to limitations brought by the design of its hardware.

2017

Laptops that include these GPUs and are sufficiently thin – as of late 2017, under  – have been designated as meeting Nvidia's "Max-Q" design standard. In July 2016, Nvidia agreed to a settlement for a false advertising lawsuit regarding its GTX 970 model, as the models were unable to use all of their advertised 4 GB of RAM due to limitations brought by the design of its hardware.

In May 2017, Nvidia announced a partnership with Toyota which will use Nvidia's Drive PX-series artificial intelligence platform for its autonomous vehicles.

In July 2017, Nvidia and Chinese search giant Baidu announced a far-reaching AI partnership that includes cloud computing, autonomous driving, consumer devices, and Baidu's open-source AI framework PaddlePaddle.

Baidu unveiled that Nvidia's Drive PX 2 AI will be the foundation of its autonomous-vehicle platform. Nvidia officially released the Titan V on December 7, 2017. Nvidia officially released the Nvidia Quadro GV100 on March 27, 2018.

2018

Baidu unveiled that Nvidia's Drive PX 2 AI will be the foundation of its autonomous-vehicle platform. Nvidia officially released the Titan V on December 7, 2017. Nvidia officially released the Nvidia Quadro GV100 on March 27, 2018.

Nvidia officially released the RTX 2080 GPUs in September 27, 2018.

In 2018, Google announced that Nvidia's Tesla P4 graphic cards would be integrated into Google Cloud service's artificial intelligence. On March 11, 2019, Nvidia announced a deal to buy Mellanox Technologies for $6.9 billion to substantially expand its footprint in the high-performance computing market.

The program proved to be controversial, with complaints about it possibly being an anti-competitive practice. First announced in a blog post on March 1, 2018, it was canceled in May 2018. ===Apple/Nvidia web driver controversy=== In May 2018, on the Nvidia user forum, a thread was started asking the company to update users when they would release web drivers for its cards installed on legacy Mac Pro machines up to mid-2012 5,1 running the macOS Mojave operating system 10.14.

GTC 2018 attracted over 8400 attendees.

2019

In 2018, Google announced that Nvidia's Tesla P4 graphic cards would be integrated into Google Cloud service's artificial intelligence. On March 11, 2019, Nvidia announced a deal to buy Mellanox Technologies for $6.9 billion to substantially expand its footprint in the high-performance computing market.

In May 2019, Nvidia announced new RTX Studio laptops.

In August 2019, Nvidia announced Minecraft RTX, an official Nvidia-developed patch for the game Minecraft adding real-time DXR raytracing exclusively to the Windows 10 version of the game.

By January 2019, with still no sign of the enabling web drivers, Apple Insider weighed into the controversy with a claim that Apple management "doesn't want Nvidia support in macOS".

Nvidia's shares traded at over $531 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at over US$328.7 billion in January 2021. For the Q2 of 2020, Nvidia reported sales of $3.87 billion, which was a 50% rise from the same period in 2019.

2020

In addition to AMD, its competitors include Intel and Qualcomm. Nvidia announced plans on September 13, 2020 to acquire Arm Ltd.

The whole game is, in Nvidia's words, "refit" with path tracing, which dramatically affects the way light, reflections, and shadows work inside the engine. In May 2020, Nvidia's top scientists developed an open-source ventilator in order to address the shortage resulting from the global coronavirus pandemic.

On May 14, 2020, Nvidia officially announced their Ampere GPU microarchitecture and the Nvidia A100 GPU accelerator.

Named Cambridge-1, the computer will employ AI to support healthcare research, with an expected completion by the end of 2020, at a cost of approximately £40 million.

Without Apple approved Nvidia web drivers, Apple users are faced with replacing their Nvidia cards with a competing supported brand, such as AMD Radeon from the list recommended by Apple. === Hardware Unboxed controversy === On December 10, 2020, Nvidia told popular YouTube tech reviewer Steven Walton of Hardware Unboxed that it would no longer supply him with GeForce Founders Edition graphics card review units.

Via Twitter, they also shared a second apology sent by Nvidia's Del Rizzo that said "to withhold samples because I didn't agree with your commentary is simply inexcusable and crossed the line." ==Finances== For the fiscal year 2020, Nvidia reported earnings of US$2.796 billion, with an annual revenue of US$10.918 billion, a decline of 6.8% over the previous fiscal cycle.

Nvidia's shares traded at over $531 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at over US$328.7 billion in January 2021. For the Q2 of 2020, Nvidia reported sales of $3.87 billion, which was a 50% rise from the same period in 2019.

GTC 2020 was converted to a digital event and drew roughly 59,000 registrants. ==Product families== Nvidia's family includes primarily graphics, wireless communication, PC processors, and automotive hardware/software.

2021

Nvidia's shares traded at over $531 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at over US$328.7 billion in January 2021. For the Q2 of 2020, Nvidia reported sales of $3.87 billion, which was a 50% rise from the same period in 2019.




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