# NVIDIA History

### A Timeline of Innovation

For more than 30 years, scientists, researchers, developers, and creators have been using NVIDIA technology to do amazing things. More than 4 million developers now create thousands of applications for accelerated computing. More than 40,000 companies use NVIDIA AI technologies, with 15,000 global startups in NVIDIA Inception.

1993

### 3D Graphics

Founded on April 5, 1993, by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, with a vision to bring 3D graphics to the gaming and multimedia markets.

1999

### GPU

Invents the GPU, the graphics processing unit, which sets the stage to reshape the computing industry.

2006

### CUDA

Opens parallel processing capabilities of GPUs to science and research with unveiling of [CUDA](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/technologies/cuda-x.md)® architecture.

Siemens

2012

### AI

Sparks the era of [modern AI](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-data-science.md) by powering the breakthrough AlexNet neural network.

2018

### RTX

Reinvents computer graphics with [NVIDIA RTX](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visualization/technologies/rtx.md)™, the first GPU capable of real-time ray tracing.

2022

### Omniverse

Plays a foundational role in the building of the metaverse, the next stage of the internet, with the [NVIDIA Omniverse™ platform](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/omniverse.md).

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2. 3D Graphics
3. GPU
4. CUDA
5. AI
6. RTX
7. Omniverse

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