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Nvidia

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Nvidia is a company that makes powerful computer chips, and now they make the brains for cars that can drive themselves.

Technical Definition

Nvidia is a technology company best known for its graphics processing units (GPUs) and, increasingly, for automotive AI platforms used in autonomous driving systems.

About Nvidia

Nvidia Corporation is an American technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, it develops graphics processing units (GPUs), systems on chips (SoCs), and application programming interfaces (APIs) for data science, high-performance computing, video games, and mobile and automotive applications. Nvidia has been described as a Big Tech company.

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