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From creating chips for gaming to becoming one of the world's leading AI chip companies, it's safe to say Nvidia (NVDA) is officially one of the tech giants. In 2023, the company generated nearly $27 billion in revenue, and its market cap is currently hovering around $3 trillion.
Let's take a closer look at what led to Nvidia's boom with Beyond the Ticker, where we dive into the company's biggest moments.
1993
Nvidia was founded on April 5, 1993, by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, with a vision to bring 3D graphics to the gaming industry.
1997
Nvidia launched its first hit product, the NV3. It would later go on to sell a whopping 1 million units in its first four months of availability.
1999
On January 22, 1999, Nvidia went public via IPO at $12 per share.
2000
Microsoft (MSFT) chose Nvidia to develop the graphics hardware for the first Xbox console.
2005
Microsoft rival Sony (SONY) chose Nvidia’s hardware to power the PlayStation 3.
2010
Nvidia became the graphics chip supplier for automaker Audi.
2015
The company launched its Nvidia Drive chip for powering driver assistance systems.
2016
Nvidia kicked off its AI efforts with the launch of its DGX-1 server for artificial intelligence applications.
2018
The company debuted the NVIDIA RTX, the first GPU capable of real-time ray tracing.
That same year, Google (GOOG, GOOGL) announced it was using Nvidia’s Tesla (TSLA) P4 graphics cards for its Google Cloud Platform.
2022
Nvidia debuted i
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