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2026-10-07 · Yahoo

Nvidia CEO: 'If not for Windows, Nvidia wouldn't have been founded'

Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang discusses how Microsoft (MSFT) Windows was foundational to Nvidia's creation in the early 1990s. He outlines how key technological milestones — from Windows 95 to DirectX and programmable shaders — enabled the evolution of the GPU and paved the way for CUDA. Video Transcript 00:00 Jensen Huang Nvidia was founded because of Windows. 00:02 Jensen Huang It was 1992, late '92, uh Windows 3.1 and we were just started to see the the vision of what a what a personal computer really can be. 00:15 Jensen Huang And at the time, frankly, we had never even I had never even seen a PC before. I largely worked on workstations. We had, you know, we had uh file servers and supercomputers that we used to design chips with.

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