NVIDIA OVERVIEW
Vision, innovation and market leadership
FAST FACTS
- Founded in 1993
- Jen-Hsun Huang is co-founder, president and CEO
- Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif.
- Listed with NASDAQ under the symbol NVDA in 1999
- Invented the GPU in 1999 and has shipped more than 1 billion to date
- 7,500 employees worldwide
- $4 billion in revenue in FY12
- 5,000 patents issued, allowed or filed
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DID YOU KNOW?
- Every film nominated over the past three years for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects was made using NVIDIA technology.
- Medical researchers at France's LIRMM use Tesla GPUs to "virtually" still a beating heart, enabling surgeons to treat patients by guiding robotic arms that predict and adjust for movement.
- NVIDIA processors will drive the infotainment systems and digital instrument clusters in more than 100 cars, including models from Tesla Motors, Audi, Lamborghini, Mini, Rolls Royce and VW.
- Tegra 3 is the world's first quad-core mobile processor.
- On the June 2012 list of Top500 supercomputers, more than 50 systems were powered by NVIDIA GPUs.
- NVIDIA ranked #10 in Newsweek's list of "Greenest Companies" in 2011.
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