Nvidia

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Nvidia

Basic information
Founded	1993
Type	Public
Industry	Semiconductors
Official website	https://www.nvidia.com/

Nvidia Corporation is an American technology company that designs and sells graphics processing units (GPUs) for both commercial and enterprise use. It was founded on April 5, 1993, by current CEO (as of 2025) Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. The company is the largest providers of GPUs for both consumer and enterprise.

Consumer-impact summary

Nvidia's perception of consumers waned as the enterprise wing of the company started financially outperforming the consumer wing. This has lead to the prioritization of enterprise products while the consumer products become less appealing. Nvidia on multiple accounts has employed deceptive practices such as to mislead the everyday buyer.

Overview of concerns that arise from the company's conduct regarding (if applicable):

• User freedom
• User privacy
• Business model
• Market control

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Incidents

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This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the Nvidia category.

Forced Arbitration

In Nvidia's terms of service regarding accessing their website, under "Informal Resolution" users are required to agree to resolve legal disputes with Nvidia by arbitration from Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services (JAMS).

Stagnation of Consumer GPU Offerings (date)

Since assuming it's dominant position at the top of the consumer GPU market, Nvidia has been credibly accused of shrinkflation across it's entire product lineup.

GeForce Partner Program (2018.03.01 - 2018.05.04)

Main article: [[GeForce Partner Program]]

On March 1, 2018, Nvidia in a blog post first announced the marketing program which aimed to provide partners with benefits such PR support, video game bundling and market development funds. Kyle Bennett from HardOCP spoke with seven companies off the record and they more or less had the same to say:

• The terms of the GPP agreement are potentially illegal
• The GPP will hurt consumer choices
• The GPP will hurt a partner's ability to do business with other companies like AMD and Intel

Nvidia cancelled the program on May 4, 2018, citing "The rumors, conjecture and mistruths go far beyond its intent. Rather than battling misinformation, we have decided to cancel the program."

12VHPWR Connector Failures (2022 - Present)

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RTX 50-series GPUs Missing ROPs (2025 - Present)

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Threatening Hardware Unboxed (date)

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Threatening Gamers Nexus (date)

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Products

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• RTX 5070 (2025-03-05)
• RTX 5060 (2025-05-19)
• RTX 5050 (2025-07-01)

See also

Intel CPUs stability issue