NVIDIA Corporation
Company Profile
Business Overview
-The Company is a full-stack computing infrastructure company with data-center-scale offerings that are transforming industries. This includes a foundational CUDA programming model as well as a range of domain-specific software libraries, software development kits, and Application Programming Interfaces. The Company primarily serves four separate markets: Gaming, Professional Visualization, Data Center, and Automotive.
-The Company’s operations related to the automotive market are comprised around providing platform solutions for automated driving and in-vehicle cockpit computing for applications such as infotainment and in-vehicle experiences. The Company also develops AI applications for in-vehicle use. It also provides a scalable data center-based simulation solution for digital testing, validation and development.
-In May 2020, the Company announced plans to enter the semiconductor market for technology that helps cars with various driver assistance features. The move represents a change in direction for the Company as robotaxis remain years away from mass adoption. Until now, the Company has supplied technology for heavily autonomous vehicles that require sophisticated computers. The shift in strategy is aimed to help automakers that struggle with maintaining two systems, one for ADAS features currently available, and one for advanced self-driving technology. The Company’s new system will be able to manage both types of autonomous features, saving engineering efforts and optimizing certain driver assistance functions. Its new technology will use the Orin processing chip launched in December 2019. The chips will be part of a larger system that includes cameras and will likely be built by traditional automotive suppliers such as Continental, ZF Friedrichshafen or Bosch. The Company expects vehicles with the new system could start production by early 2023.
-The Company is organized into two reportable segments:
- Graphics: GeForce GPUs for gaming and PCs, the GeForce NOW game streaming service and related infrastructure, and solutions for gaming platforms; Quadro/NVIDIA RTX GPUs for enterprise design; virtual GPU software for cloud-based visual and virtual computing; automotive platforms for infotainment systems; and Omniverse Enterprise software for developing and operating metaverse and 3D internet applications
- Compute & Networking: Data Center computing and networking platforms including Quantum for InfiniBand and Spectrum for Ethernet; NVIDIA Drive automated-driving platform and automotive development agreements; Jetson for robotics and other embedded platforms; NVIDIA AI Enterprise and other software; and DGX Cloud software and services
-The Company employs a fabless manufacturing strategy and does not directly manufacture the semiconductors used for its products. Instead, it utilizes suppliers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Samsung Electronics for all phases of the wafer manufacturing process. The Company also uses independent subcontractors for assembly, testing and packaging of its products, while performing quality assurance and configuration on incoming semiconductors itself.
Competitors
-Alibaba
-Alphabet
-Amazon
-Ambarella
-AMD
-Baidu
-Broadcom
-Huawei
-Intel
-Microsoft
-Qualcomm
-Renesas
-Samsung
-Tesla
-Xilinx
Shareholders
-The Company is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market.
Products
-Xavier System on Chip (SoC)
-Hardware for autonomous driving platform
- DRIVE AGX Pegasus capable of 320 TOPS
- DRIVE AGX Xavier capable of 30 TOPS with low power consumption
- DRIVE AGX Orin capable of 200 TOPS
- NVIDIA Drive Hyperion data collection and perception evaluation platform
-Software for autonomous driving platform
- DRIVE AV Safety Force Field computational framework for autonomous vehicles
- DRIVE IX intelligent experience software development kit
- DRIVE AR augmented reality software development kit
- DRIVE AutoPilot level 2+ autonomous system
- DRIVE AP2X level 2+ autonomous driving solution (includes DRIVE AV, DRIVE IX, and DRIVE AutoPilot)
- NVIDIA DriveWorks software development kit
- DRIVE OS operating system for accelerated computing
- DRIVE Chauffeur AI-assisted driving platform
-DRIVE Constellation autonomous vehicle simulator consisting of sensor simulator server and vehicle computer server
-DRIVE Concierge system for intelligent assistant services with specific autonomous driving functionalities
-DGX deep-learning AI systems for data center applications
-DRIVE Mapping solution to create, update and localize cloud-based maps
-NVIDIA Drive Infrastructure end-to-end solution for complete data center
-NVIDIA Drive Sim data center-based simulation solution for digital cockpit development and self-driving platform testing and validation
-NVIDIA Omniverse platform core simulation and environment rendering
-NVIDIA Omniverse Replicator for synthetic data generation in simulation solutions
History
| 1993 | NVIDIA founded |
| 1994 | Established first strategic alliance with SGS-THOMPSON |
| 1998 | Partnership contract with TSMC |
| 1999 | Invented GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) |
| 2008 | Started selling TEGRA Mobile Processor |
| Jan. 2015 | Announced NVIDIA DRIVE computer for automotive application |
| Feb. 2022 | Announced termination of previously announced transaction to acquire ARM Holdings due to regulatory challenges. |
