NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is a U.S.-based semiconductor and computing company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Founded in 1993, it designs graphics processing units (GPUs), data-center accelerators, networking hardware, and integrated systems used for accelerated computing, artificial intelligence, and high‑performance simulation. Its technologies include the CUDA programming model and software libraries that enable GPU acceleration across scientific and industrial workloads.
In the chemicals and materials domain, NVIDIA’s hardware and software are widely used to speed up molecular dynamics and quantum chemistry codes (e.g., GROMACS, LAMMPS, NAMD, and others), computational fluid dynamics, process modeling, optimization, and digital twin applications for plants and supply chains. Chemical producers and research organizations use NVIDIA‑accelerated systems on‑premises and in the cloud to train and deploy AI models for R&D, quality, and asset reliability, and to run large‑scale simulations that would be impractical on CPUs alone.