Focus On Server Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Based in Santa Clara, California, NVIDIA was founded in 1993. Its three co-founders brought together design and engineering expertise to build a company known around the world for its accelerated and graphics-based computing solutions. Its name is based on the acronym “NV” or “next version,” and the Latin word for envy, “invidia.” These days it’s easy to envy this multinational server manufacturer’s successes. The company’s first strategic partnership—following an influx of $20 million in venture capital funding—was with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics in 1994, to manufacture a single-chip graphical-user-interface accelerator. Now, nearly 30 years later, NVIDIA manufactures some of the world’s fastest supercomputers. It also builds Tegra mobile processors, which are used […]
