Nvidia

Some of the key events about Nvidia

• 1993

  Founded as a graphics chip company in Santa Clara, California
• 1998

  Faced a class-action lawsuit over defective graphics chips in laptops
• 1999

  Released the GeForce 256, the world's first GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)
• 2001

  Introduced the nForce chipset, expanding into the motherboard market
• 2002

  Paid $70.7 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit alleging financial misstatements
• 2006

  Acquired PortalPlayer, entering the handheld device market
• 2007

  Launched CUDA, a parallel computing platform and programming model
• 2008

  Introduced the Tesla GPU computing product line for high-performance computing
• 2008

  Agreed to pay $850,000 to settle charges of option backdating
• 2009

  Paid $5.5 million to settle antitrust allegations related to graphics chips
• 2011

  Discovered a major security flaw in its Tegra chipsets
• 2014

  Unveiled the NVIDIA DRIVE automotive platform for autonomous vehicles
• 2015

  Recalled Shield tablets due to fire hazard from overheating batteries
• 2016

  Released the Pascal GPU architecture, significantly improving performance and efficiency
• 2018

  Introduced the Turing GPU architecture with real-time ray tracing capabilities
• 2018

  Faced criticism for inadequate disclosure of cryptocurrency mining impact on financial results
• 2019

  Agreed to pay $5.5 million to settle charges of inadequate disclosures about cryptomining
• 2020

  Completed the acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, expanding into data center networking
• 2020

  Faced backlash for artificially limiting mining capabilities on RTX 3060 graphics cards
• 2022

  Fined $5.5 million by SEC for inadequate disclosures about cryptomining's impact on gaming business

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