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

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.

00:27 Jensen Huang

And and the founders and I, you know, talked about this future where maybe uh a personal computer with 3D graphics would enable it to do things like games and and be a workstation and design things.

00:41 Jensen Huang

And so we we imagined about this world. If not for Windows, uh Nvidia wouldn’t have been founded. And then, and of course,

00:48 Jensen Huang

And of course, we we started in 1993. Um, I Windows 95 really made reinvented. Windows 95,

01:00 Jensen Huang

Wow. Am I on?

01:04 Jensen Huang

Windows, Windows 95 uh, uh, made possible the GPU to be connected to uh uh a personal computer and what revolutionized the GPU was Direct X.

01:14 Jensen Huang

Direct 3D uh was the API that really uh enabled us to uh uh reveal the capabilities of GPUs into applications.

01:21 Jensen Huang

But then DX8 came along and we co-invented with Microsoft the world’s first G programmable GPU, which is programmable shaders, which a…