Nvidia Corp (NVDA - Full Stock Analysis): Positioning for the future
NVDA at a glance
NVDA is an American multinational technology company based in California whose business revolves around a number of hardware and software offerings:
GeForce: top-of-the-line consumer-oriented graphics processing unit (GPU). A GPU is the specialized circuitry designed to create images on a display device. It’s what allows computer monitors to show us what’s going on.
Nvidia RTX: the software side of GeForce. Paired with the hardware, this software allows the CPU to communicate efficiently with the GPU and create accurate and quick display updates.
Tegra: a GPU and CPU combination chip for mobile devices.
Tesla: a general-purpose GPU for specific professional and scientific application such as heavy compute science experiments or professional servers.
nForce: a motherboard chipset created for Intel and AMD microprocessors.
NVDA certainly has other offerings, but these are its primary focuses. Together, they encompass two types of businesses (source):
Graphics: NVDA’s graphics segment aims to provide hardware, software, and infrastructure solutions for gaming platforms.
Compute and networking: NVDA’s compute and networking segment aims to create efficient, high-performance compute and accelerated computing solutions to drive datacenters and AI training servers. This also covers applications such as cryptocurrency mining, autonomous vehicle solutions, and any supercomputer tasks.