- Headquarters
- Santa Clara, United States · North America
- Value chain
- Design(Research & design); also Hardware & devices
- What that means
- Designs products others make: fabless chip design, reference designs, architectures and IP cores.
- Founded
- 1993
- Staff
- 36,000 (2025)
- Ownership
- Listed
- Listing
- Nasdaq:NVDA on Google Finance
- Website
- nvidia.com
- Relevance
- Very high at its strongest, in High-Performance & AI Computing
Santa Clara, United StatesIn 8 capabilities
Each capability the company is listed in, most relevant first: how experts in the field see its global relevance there, why it is listed and the source.
- High-Performance & AI ComputingVery high
Semiconductors & Advanced Computing · Design · listed #1 of 50
Dominant designer of AI accelerators (Hopper, Blackwell, Rubin GPUs), NVLink/InfiniBand interconnect and the CUDA software stack that power most AI training clusters and leading supercomputers.
Relevance: Dominant AI accelerator and systems provider
- Semiconductor Design & EDAVery high
Semiconductors & Advanced Computing · Design · listed #4 of 50
Largest fabless chip designer by revenue; it designs the GPU and AI accelerator families (Hopper, Blackwell) used in most AI data centres.
Relevance: Largest fabless designer; defines AI accelerator design globally
Robotics & Autonomous Systems · Equipment & materials · listed #5 of 50
Its DRIVE Orin and Thor computers, DriveOS software and Isaac/Omniverse simulation are the leading compute and validation platform for autonomous vehicles and robots.
Relevance: DRIVE compute and simulation underpin much of the industry
- Machine Learning & Foundation ModelsVery high
Artificial Intelligence · Equipment & materials · listed #6 of 50
Supplies most of the GPUs and the CUDA software stack used to train foundation models worldwide, and publishes its own Nemotron models.
Relevance: GPUs and CUDA underpin virtually all foundation model training.
- Advanced RoboticsVery high
Robotics & Autonomous Systems · Software & services · listed #18 of 50
Supplies the Jetson/Thor robot computers, the Isaac simulation stack and GR00T humanoid foundation models that many humanoid and AMR developers build on.
Relevance: Supplies robot compute, simulation and foundation models across the field
Connectivity, Cyber & Trust Technologies · Design · listed #8 of 50
Through Mellanox it designs LinkX optical interconnects and Spectrum-X/Quantum-X silicon-photonics co-packaged-optics switches for AI networks.
Relevance: Drives AI optical interconnect and CPO switch adoption
Quantum Technologies · Software & services · listed #16 of 50
Supplies the CUDA-Q hybrid programming platform, cuQuantum simulation libraries and NVQLink GPU-QPU interconnect used across the quantum hardware industry.
Relevance: CUDA-Q and NVQLink make it central to hybrid quantum computing
- AI Safety, Security & EvaluationModerate
Artificial Intelligence · Software & services · listed #7 of 50
Supplies the open-source NeMo Guardrails, the Garak LLM vulnerability scanner and an AI red team, which are widely used to secure deployed models.
Relevance: NeMo Guardrails and Garak widely used open tooling.