http://firingsquad.gamers.com/features/nvidiahistory/
The rise of NVIDIA
NVIDIA needs no introduction at FiringSquad or anywhere else in the hardware industry. The company has become the poster child for consumer 3D graphics. Ever since the release of its RIVA 128 graphics card, NVIDIA has never let its momentum slow down.
When NVIDIA made its initial public offering three years ago, it was joining a club of only a handful public fabless graphics semiconductor companies: ATI, S3, Trident, Tseng Labs, Number Nine, Cirrus Logic, 3dfx, and 3Dlabs. We all watched as the company climbed through the ranks with the TNT, TNT2, GeForce, and GeForce2 line of graphics processors.
