I know you might not know as much about Nvidia as the co-founder's but of course I can't contact them I'm in high school so forgive me if these are bad questions. I have a project in english its a story book about something we are interested in so I figured I would pick Nvidia because I like their products and are interested in working in the GPU designing and engineering buissness. Long story short i picked a company to do a story book/ documentary on. So here are the questions I'm going to ask you and your people.
1.) How did Nvidia get the idea to create there company.
2.)How did Nvidia figure out what to name there company.
3.)Did you ever meet any of the Co-founders of Nvidia.
4.)If so feedback on their personality.
5.)Would you say anything to improve their product.
6.)Do you like their products.
7.)Would you recommend Nvidia lower the price on their products since AMD's GPU's are cheaper.
8.)Do you like the quality of their products in relation to the price.
9.).Do you like there android devices.
10.)How do you see Nvidia in the future or will it go away
I hope you proof-read your paper, because this post is a nightmare grammatically. As for the questions:
No idea. My guess as computers adopted the GUI and the ability to playback media, there became a need for specialized chips to offload the task of rendering and decoding from the CPU. According to NVidia's company history page, there were more than 2 dozen "graphics chips" companies and 3 years after founding nvidia there 70 of these companies. I'm guess there was a lot of demand, and considering one of the founders was chip designer for AMD, I guess he saw CPU's getting taxed heavily to render GUIs.
No idea
Nope
N/A
From a consumer's perspective, they can make their products better by opening up their technologies. Open-source drivers would be awesome on Linux.
Meh, they function and meet my needs, but I wouldn't go as far as like
From a consumer's perspective, yes. From a business perspective, no. Nvidia clearly has superior marketing, and better business relationships, as well as proprietary technologies that simply functions better than AMD's counter-parts, all things that can justify a higher price-tag over their competition, despite the raw performance not matching up to their competition's counter-parts.
Nope, especially as far a G-Sync is concerned.
No real opinion, though I think their mobile SoC's have progressed quite a bit and show a lot of promise.
I don't see NVidia going anywhere anytime too soon, though the focus may be more towards mobile and embedded devices. AMD also sees that growing market and is approaching it with their APU's.
As far as Nvidia's mobile parts are concerned they are very lopsided, on one hand the iGPUs are fantastic for being a mobile part but on the other the actual CPU is very lackluster and nowhere near as powerful as it should be. The Tegra line is also very power hungry and they wear down a quickly (due to the CPU of the Tegra's being very average in performance Android can tend to outpace the performance of the Tegra, case in point running lollipop on a Tegra 3 N7 is far from fluid)