Editing Nvidia (section)

=== Founding ===
[[File:2484 Berryessa Road.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Denny's]] roadside diner in [[San Jose, California]], where Nvidia's three co-founders agreed to start the company in late 1992]]
[[File:Nvidiaheadquarters.jpg|thumb|right|Nvidia's former headquarters which was home to the company through most of its pre-AI period (still in use)]]
[[File:Nvidia campus aerial.jpg|thumb|right|Aerial view of Endeavor, the first of the two new Nvidia headquarters buildings, in [[Santa Clara, California]], in 2017. [[Apple Park]] is visible in the distance.]]
[[File:NVIDIA Headquarters.jpg|thumb|right|Entrance of Endeavor headquarters building in 2018]]

Nvidia was founded on April 5, 1993,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Company Info |url=https://www.nvidia.com/page/corporate_timeline.html |access-date=November 9, 2010 |publisher=Nvidia.com |archive-date=July 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701130728/http://www.nvidia.com/page/corporate_timeline.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jensen Huang: Executive Profile & Biography |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=230160&privcapId=32307 |access-date=June 21, 2018 |website=[[Bloomberg News]] |archive-date=June 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622004950/https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=230160&privcapId=32307 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="NVIDIA_Articles">{{cite web |last1=Huang |first1=Jen-Hsun |title=Articles of Incorporation of NVidia Corporation |url=https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov/api/report/GetImageByNum/034117059052077044090092010255252084026143162165 |website=bizfile online |publisher=California Secretary of State |access-date=October 11, 2024 |date=April 5, 1993}}</ref> by [[Jensen Huang]] (who, {{As of|2025|lc=yes}}, remains CEO), a [[Taiwanese-American]] electrical engineer who was previously the director of CoreWare at [[LSI Logic]] and a [[microprocessor]] designer at [[AMD]]; [[Chris Malachowsky]], an engineer who worked at [[Sun Microsystems]]; and [[Curtis Priem]], who was previously a senior staff engineer and graphics chip designer at [[IBM]] and Sun Microsystems.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NVIDIA Company History: Innovations Over the Years |url=https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/corporate-timeline/|access-date=April 17, 2021 |website=NVIDIA |language=en-us|archive-date=March 9, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309012821/https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/corporate-timeline/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=NVIDIA Corporation {{!}} History, Headquarters, & Facts|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/NVIDIA-Corporation|access-date=April 17, 2021|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|archive-date=April 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210426123917/https://www.britannica.com/topic/NVIDIA-Corporation|url-status=live}}</ref> In late 1992, the three men agreed to start the company in a meeting at a Denny's roadside diner on Berryessa Road in East San Jose.<ref name="Tilley">{{cite news |last1=Tilley |first1=Aaron |date=November 30, 2016 |title=The New Intel: How Nvidia Went From Powering Video Games To Revolutionizing Artificial Intelligence |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2016/11/30/nvidia-deep-learning-ai-intel/?sh=6c0e3f037ff1 |access-date=March 14, 2023 |work=Forbes |archive-date=March 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230314141243/https://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2016/11/30/nvidia-deep-learning-ai-intel/?sh=6c0e3f037ff1 |url-status=live}} This article was written by a ''Forbes'' staff member and was published in the December 19, 2016, issue of ''Forbes'' magazine.</ref><ref name="Witt">{{cite magazine |last1=Witt |first1=Stephen |title=How Jensen Huang's Nvidia Is Powering the A.I. Revolution |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/04/how-jensen-huangs-nvidia-is-powering-the-ai-revolution |access-date=December 5, 2023 |magazine=The New Yorker |date=November 27, 2023 |archive-date=November 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231127154917/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/04/how-jensen-huangs-nvidia-is-powering-the-ai-revolution |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Whitaker">{{cite news |last1=Whitaker |first1=Bill |authorlink1=Bill Whitaker (journalist) |title=Meet Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, the man behind the $2 trillion company powering today's artificial intelligence |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meet-nvida-ceo-jensen-huang-company-powering-ai-today-60-minutes-transcript/ |access-date=June 19, 2024 |work=60 Minutes |date=April 28, 2024}}</ref><ref name="Kim_Page_37">{{cite book |last1=Kim |first1=Tae |title=The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant |date=2024 |publisher=W.W. Norton & Company |location=New York |isbn=978-1324086710 |page=37}}</ref> 

At the time, Malachowsky and Priem were frustrated with Sun's management and were looking to leave, but Huang was on "firmer ground",<ref name="fortune-interview-2017">{{Cite web |last=Nusca |first=Andrew |date=November 16, 2017 |title=This Man Is Leading an AI Revolution in Silicon Valley—And He's Just Getting Started |url=https://fortune.com/2017/11/16/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116192021/http://fortune.com/2017/11/16/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang/ |archive-date=November 16, 2017 |access-date=November 28, 2017 |website=Fortune}}</ref> in that he was already running his own division at LSI.<ref name="Witt" /> The three co-founders discussed a vision of the future which was so compelling that Huang decided to leave LSI<ref name="fortune-interview-2017" /> and become the chief executive officer of their new startup.<ref name="Witt" />

The three co-founders envisioned  graphics-based processing as the best trajectory for tackling challenges that had eluded general-purpose computing methods.<ref name="fortune-interview-2017" /> As Huang later explained: "We also observed that video games were simultaneously one of the most computationally challenging problems and would have incredibly high sales volume. Those two conditions don't happen very often. Video games was our [[killer app]] — a flywheel to reach large markets funding huge [[R&D]] to solve massive computational problems."<ref name="fortune-interview-2017" /> 

The first problem was who would quit first. Huang's wife, Lori, did not want him to resign from LSI unless Malachowsky resigned from Sun at the same time, and Malachowsky's wife, Melody, felt the same way about Huang.<ref name="Kim_Page_38">{{cite book |last1=Kim |first1=Tae |title=The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant |date=2024 |publisher=W.W. Norton & Company |location=New York |isbn=978-1324086710 |page=38}}</ref> Priem broke that deadlock by resigning first from Sun, effective December 31, 1992.<ref name="Kim_Page_38" /> According to Priem, this put pressure on Huang and Malachowsky to not leave him to "flail alone", so they gave notice too.<ref name="Kim_Page_39">{{cite book |last1=Kim |first1=Tae |title=The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant |date=2024 |publisher=W.W. Norton & Company |location=New York |isbn=978-1324086710 |page=39}}</ref>  Huang left LSI and "officially joined Priem on February 17", which was also Huang's 30th birthday, while Malachowsky left Sun in early March.<ref name="Kim_Page_39" />  In early 1993, the three founders began working together on their new startup in Priem's townhouse in [[Fremont, California]].<ref name="Kim_Page_41">{{cite book |last1=Kim |first1=Tae |title=The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant |date=2024 |publisher=W.W. Norton & Company |location=New York |isbn=978-1324086710 |page=41}}</ref>  

With $40,000 in the bank, the company was born.<ref name="fortune-interview-2017" /> The company subsequently received $20 million of venture capital funding from [[Sequoia Capital]], [[Sutter Hill Ventures]] and others.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=Elisa |date=April 15, 2002 |title=Crying wolf |url=https://www.forbes.com/global/2002/0415/032.html |access-date=February 11, 2017 |website=[[Forbes]] |quote=Huang, a chip designer at AMD and LSI Logic, co-founded the company in 1993 with $2 million from Sequoia Capital and others. |archive-date=November 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129211130/https://www.forbes.com/global/2002/0415/032.html |url-status=live}}</ref> 

During the late 1990s, Nvidia was one of 70 startup companies pursuing the idea that graphics acceleration for video games was the path to the future.<ref name="Tilley" />  Only two survived: Nvidia and [[ATI Technologies]], the latter of which merged into AMD.<ref name="Tilley" />

Nvidia initially had no name.<ref name="Kim_Page_42">{{cite book |last1=Kim |first1=Tae |title=The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant |date=2024 |publisher=W.W. Norton & Company |location=New York |isbn=978-1324086710 |page=42}}</ref>  Priem's first idea was "Primal Graphics", a [[syllabic abbreviation]] of two of the founders' last names, but that left out Huang.<ref name="Kim_Page_42" /> They soon discovered it was impossible to create a workable name with syllables from all three founders' names, after considering "Huaprimal", "Prihuamal", "Malluapri", etc.<ref name="Kim_Page_42" />  The next idea came from Priem's idea for the name of Nvidia's first product.<ref name="Kim_Page_42" />   Priem originally wanted to call it the "GXNV", as in the "next version" of the GX graphics chips which he had worked on at Sun.<ref name="Kim_Page_41" />  Then Huang told Priem to "drop the GX", resulting in the name "NV".<ref name="Kim_Page_41" />  Priem made a list of words with the letters "NV" in them.<ref name="Kim_Page_42" /> At one point, Malachowsky and Priem wanted to call the company NVision, but that name was already taken by a manufacturer of toilet paper.<ref name="Witt" /> Both Priem<ref name="Kim_Page_42" /> and Huang have taken credit for coming up with the name Nvidia,<ref name="Witt" /> from "[[invidia]]", the Latin word for "envy".<ref name="fortune-interview-2017" /> 

After the company outgrew Priem's townhouse, its original headquarters office was in [[Sunnyvale, California]].<ref name="fortune-interview-2017" />