Also known as: NVIDIA Corporation
NVIDIA is an American company founded in 1993 that designs GPUs and the CUDA software platform for general-purpose GPU computing.1
Overview
NVIDIA was co-founded and is led by Jensen Huang. It popularised the term “GPU” with its GeForce line and later turned the GPU into a general parallel processor by releasing CUDA in 2007. That move made NVIDIA hardware the standard platform for deep learning, and the company is now a leading supplier of AI and high-performance computing accelerators.2
Beyond add-in cards, NVIDIA designs Tegra systems-on-chip and the Jetson line of embedded AI modules, bringing GPU-accelerated computing to robotics, cameras, and edge devices.
Why it matters
GPUs excel at the massively parallel arithmetic that DSP and machine learning both demand. An NVIDIA card can accelerate heavy SDR signal processing or run on-device classification, and a Jetson module can do GPU-accelerated work at the edge — for example, near an antenna where sending raw IQ back to a server would be impractical.