NVIDIA reported $193.737 billion in Data Center revenue for the fiscal year ended Jan. 25, 2026, showing how the Silicon Valley company’s business has shifted from graphics toward computing infrastructure.
NVIDIA’s Form 10-K put total revenue at $215.938 billion, 65% higher than in the prior fiscal year. Gaming generated $16.042 billion, leaving Data Center far ahead of the segment tied to the company’s early graphics focus.
NVIDIA’s corporate history dates its founding to April 5, 1993. It identifies Jensen Huang, the company’s founder and CEO, as a co-founder alongside Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, whose initial goal was 3D graphics for computer games and multimedia.
NVIDIA says the founders met at a Silicon Valley Denny’s in 1993 to discuss a chip for PC graphics. Huang later recalled why the diner worked for the group: “It had all the coffee you could drink and no one could chase you out.”
The company’s timeline puts a GPU milestone in 1999. CUDA followed in 2006; NVIDIA says it expanded GPU use into scientific and research work. The timeline dates the AlexNet neural network to 2012 and associates it with the emergence of modern AI.
In its Form 10-K, NVIDIA says its GPUs handle parallel workloads such as neural-network training and inference, or running a trained network. The filing describes CUDA and related software as part of the company’s accelerated-computing platform. It also names cloud providers, AI model makers and enterprises as users of its Data Center systems.
NVIDIA scheduled a call for Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 5 p.m. ET to discuss results for the third quarter of fiscal 2027, which ended Oct. 25.
