NVIDIA
Semiconductors and AI computing · United States
NVIDIA designs GPUs, networking and software that power AI data centres, gaming PCs, workstations and cars, and has chips made by outside foundries such as TSMC and Samsung.
What makes it different
A few customers buy a large part of the chips.
22%Largest direct customerFY2026
One direct customer alone accounted for more than a fifth of fiscal 2026 revenue, and another for 14%.
How big it is
How big is NVIDIA?
$215.9BRevenueFY2026
42,000Employees2026
$76.7BR&D since foundingFY2026
How it makes money FY2026
Almost all data center.
- Data Center compute75%$162.4B
- Data Center networking15%$31.4B
- Gaming7%$16.0B
- Professional Visualization2%$3.2B
- Other1%
How the business works
Chips plus software.
- 1AI chips, systems, networking
- 2Manufacturing to foundries
- 3CUDA developer ecosystem
Software written for CUDA keeps customers buying NVIDIA hardware.
Brands and businesses
More than NVIDIA.
Who owns it
- BlackRock, Inc.7.43%
- Vanguard Capital Management7.31%
- Jen-Hsun Huang3.58%
CEO: Jen-Hsun (Jensen) Huang
Who it competes with
AmazonKey moments
- 1993Founded
- 1999Invents the GPU
- 2006Unveils CUDA
- 2012Powers AlexNet
- 2018Launches RTX
Sources
Every number on this page comes from NVIDIA's own reports.
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What NVIDIA tracks22 metrics
Share of TOP500 supercomputers powered
Employees
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Where the money comes from4 regions
United States
Taiwan
China (including Hong Kong)
The full timeline17 moments
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