- Nvidia has transformed itself from a video game graphics company into a semiconductor and AI giant.
- Nvidia's GPUs and CUDA software dominate the cloud and data center operations of major tech companies.
- Business Insider profiled some of the people who have contributed to the company's success and the generative AI boom.
It's hard to talk about AI without mentioning Nvidia.
Nvidia controls 80% of the semiconductor market, and its GPUs are a key component of the cloud and data center operations of Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia started out as a graphics chip company serving the video game industry, eventually specializing in GPUs (graphics processing units), the chip that would revolutionize the computing industry.
That advantage, along with CUDA software (which is only compatible with NVIDIA's chips), ultimately gave GPUs an added competitive advantage in processing power, leaving customers and competitors like AMD scrambling to close the gap. H100 and A100 GPUs Demand is surging as more technology companies get into generative AI and need GPUs to process data and train large-scale language learning models.
Business Insider has compiled a list of leaders who played key roles in Nvidia's transformation from a niche video game graphics company that provided chips for Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox into the semiconductor giant at the center of a wave of generative AI.
