In 2015, Nvidia dove head-first into the artificial intelligence space, releasing its first “Drive” chip for autonomous driving in cars, as well as its “Jetson” chip made for embedded computing on smaller AI-powered devices. It was also awarded an Emmy award for the potential it helped unlock in the entertainment industry. In 2007, the company achieved its first ever quarter with more than $1 billion in revenue, and was named company of the year by Forbes magazine, Nvidia stock price increased on the news.

The platform allowed the company’s GPUs to be used for more than rendering graphics, and would eventually prove to be one of Nvidia’s biggest advantages in the explosively growing world of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Perhaps the most consequential advance in Nvidia’s history was the 2006 launch of the company’s CUDA development platform. It was after 2005 when Nvidia stock price started generating interest and attention but still faced peaks and troughs. When, in 2004, the SLI connection standard was released, Nvidia saw a huge bump in the processing power it could achieve on a single machine. Nvidia stock price hit a then all time high of over $23 in January 2002 but Nvidia stock price dropped dramatically back down to single figures in the same year. The company continued to grow quickly from there.

The company was the fastest every semiconductor company to reach $1 billion in revenue.

Just two years after going public, Nvidia was added the the S&P 500 in 2001.

It offered 3.5 million shares in its IPO. On January 22, 1999, the company holds its initial public offering on the Nasdaq exchange the Nvidia stock price was $12 a share.

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