Tech giant Nvidia has risen from being a struggling startup to the third-largest U.S. company by market cap that's dominating the AI hardware space in a little more than three decades.
Nvidia's first graphics accelerator product, the NV1, hadn't found much success following its release in 1995. But that didn't stop Sega from asking Nvidia to develop the.
Nvidia nearly went out of business in 1996 trying to make Sega's Dreamcast GPU — instead, Sega America's CEO offered the company a $5 million lifeline yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Nvidia has become a $2 trillion company, thanks to a single act of kindness from a former Sega executive. This act saved the company from bankruptcy and set it on the path to becoming one of the world's most valuable companies.