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Introduction
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Our Company
Products and Services
Economic Impact
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Governance
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Economic Impact
Historical and Economic Information
NVIDIA was founded in 1993 by Jen-Hsun Huang, the company's president and CEO, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem. NVIDIA became a public company in 1999 and is listed on NASDAQ, where its shares trade under the symbol NVDA.NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., and, as of Jan. 2012, has 7,133 employees in 48 offices in 16 countries. Learn more about NVIDIA.
We worked with our customers to develop and make available for download a software driver that starts the system fan upon powering up a notebook to reduce the thermal stress on the affected chips.
Economic Indicators
(in thousands of US dollars)
FY2012
FY2011
FY2010
Revenue
$3,997,930,000
$3,543,309,000
$3,326,445,000
Income tax expense (benefit)
$82,306,000
$18,023,000
$(14,307,000)
Total capitalization broken down in terms of debt and equity
Common stock, $.001 par value; 2,000,000,000 shares authorized; 680,598,737 shares issued and 588,555,701 outstanding in 2011; and 652,391,708 shares issued and 561,465,851 outstanding in 2010
700
677
653
Total stockholders' equity
$4,145,724,000
$3,181,462,000
$2,665,140,000
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity
$5,552,928,000
$4,495,246,000
$3,585,918,000
Additional operational information:
Total Assets
$5,552,928,000
$4,495,246,000
$3,585,918,000
Revenue by country/region
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Direct employment
7,133 employees in 16 countries
6,029 employees in 16 countries
5,706 employees in 15 countries
Cost of revenue
$1,941,413,000
$2,134,219,000
$2,149,522,000
Total operating expenses
$1,408,218,000
$1,153,343,000
$1,275,868,000
Operating expenses as a percentage of revenue
35.2
32.6
38.3
Donations and other community investments
$5,003,019
$1,681,623
$1,701,816
Retained earnings
$2,730,418,000
$2,149,328,000
$1,896,182,000
Payments to capital providers
None
None
None
Revenue by Region
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