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NVIDIA Isaac GR00T

NVIDIA Isaac GR00T, also known as Project GR00T, is an open family of vision-language-action foundation models for humanoid robots, first released by NVIDIA in March 2025.

NVIDIA Isaac ROS

NVIDIA Isaac ROS is a collection of CUDA-accelerated ROS 2 packages and AI models for robot perception, navigation, and manipulation on Jetson and RTX hardware.

NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab

NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab are NVIDIA's robotics simulation and learning stack: Isaac Sim is the GPU-accelerated simulator, and Isaac Lab is its open-source robot-learning framework.

Nvidia Jetson

Nvidia Jetson is a family of edge-AI computing platforms combining Nvidia GPUs with Arm CPU cores, used in robotics and sold as modules and developer kits.

NVIDIA NeMo

NVIDIA NeMo is a family of open-source NVIDIA tools for building, customizing, and governing generative AI models and AI agents, introduced in 2019 for speech and language tasks.

NVIDIA networking for AI

NVIDIA networking for AI is Nvidia's portfolio of InfiniBand switches, Spectrum-X Ethernet, and NVLink interconnects that move data between GPUs training large AI models, generating over $31 billion a year.

NVIDIA NIM

NVIDIA NIM is an NVIDIA inference microservice product, launched in March 2024, that packages pretrained AI models as optimized Docker containers for clouds, data centers, and RTX workstations.

Nvidia NVENC

Nvidia NVENC, also called the Nvidia Encoder, is a dedicated hardware video encoder built into NVIDIA GPUs, separate from the CUDA cores, that encodes H.264, HEVC, and AV1 video.

NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand

NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand is NVIDIA's family of InfiniBand switching platforms, adapters, and software used as the network fabric for high-performance computing and AI clusters, acquired with Mellanox.

Nvidia RTX

Nvidia RTX, also known as Nvidia GeForce RTX, is NVIDIA's GPU platform combining real-time ray tracing cores, Tensor Cores for AI, and DLSS neural rendering, launched in 2018.

Nvidia RTX Spark

Nvidia RTX Spark, also known as RTX Spark, is an Nvidia branding covering two desk-side AI computer families built on Blackwell hardware and launched in 2025.

NVIDIA Spectrum-X

NVIDIA Spectrum-X is an Ethernet networking platform NVIDIA introduced in May 2023 to improve Ethernet-based AI clouds, pairing Spectrum-4 switches with BlueField-3 SuperNICs as an AI-optimized alternative to InfiniBand.

NVIDIA Tesla T4

The NVIDIA Tesla T4 is a Turing-based data center GPU accelerator launched in 2018, a low-profile, 70-watt PCIe card widely deployed for AI inference in the cloud.

NVIDIA Triton Inference Server

NVIDIA Triton Inference Server is open-source software that serves trained AI models from any major framework, including PyTorch, TensorFlow, and TensorRT, on GPU or CPU infrastructure in the cloud, data center, or edge.

Nvidia V100

The Nvidia V100, sold as the Tesla V100, is a data center GPU accelerator on Nvidia's Volta architecture that introduced the Tensor Core for deep learning throughput.

NVIDIA Vera

NVIDIA Vera is a data center CPU announced in March 2025 as successor to Grace, the first NVIDIA server CPU designed from the core itself, with 88 custom Olympus cores.

NVIDIA Vera Rubin

NVIDIA Vera Rubin is a rack-scale AI computing platform and GPU architecture pairing the Rubin GPU with NVIDIA's Vera CPU, announced in 2024 and named for astronomer Vera Rubin.

Nvidia–Anthropic partnership

The Nvidia–Anthropic partnership is a November 2025 deal under which Anthropic committed to $30 billion of Azure compute, with Nvidia and Microsoft investing up to $15 billion in Anthropic.

NVIDIA–Groq licensing deal

The NVIDIA–Groq licensing deal, announced December 24, 2025, saw NVIDIA license Groq's AI inference technology and hire most of its staff for a reported $20 billion.

Nvidia–Intel investment

The Nvidia–Intel investment is a $5 billion equity investment by Nvidia in Intel, agreed in September 2025, taking roughly a 4% stake with a chip co-development partnership.

Nvidia–OpenAI $100 billion investment framework

The Nvidia–OpenAI $100 billion investment framework was a September 2025 letter of intent for Nvidia to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI, never finalized.

NVIDIA–OpenAI compute deal

The NVIDIA–OpenAI compute deal is a 2025 letter of intent under which Nvidia plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI for 10 gigawatts of AI data centers.

NVLink

NVLink is a proprietary NVIDIA interconnect connecting GPUs to each other and to CPUs with higher bandwidth and lower latency than PCIe, first shipped in 2016.

NVLink and NVL72

NVLink is NVIDIA's proprietary high-bandwidth interconnect linking its GPUs directly, introduced in 2016; NVL72 is the 2024 rack-scale system connecting 72 Blackwell GPUs as one large GPU.

NVM Express

NVM Express (NVMe) is an open specification family defining how host software communicates with non-volatile memory over PCIe and networks, the industry standard interface for SSDs.

NVMe over Fabrics

NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) is a specification, first released in 2016, that lets a host access NVMe storage across a network fabric such as RDMA, TCP, or Fibre Channel with near-local latency.

NVSwitch

NVSwitch is an NVIDIA switching chip that connects multiple GPUs through NVLink, letting any GPU reach any other at full bandwidth; announced in 2018 with the DGX-2 server.

NX bit

The NX bit (no-execute bit), marketed by Intel as the Execute Disable (XD) bit, is an x86 page-table flag that marks memory pages as non-executable, blocking code injected by buffer-overrun attacks.

NX Horizon

NX Horizon is a horizontal single-axis solar tracker made by Nextpower, formerly Nextracker, for utility-scale solar plants, with rows that rotate independently on their own motors.

NXDN

NXDN (Next Generation Digital Narrowband) is a narrowband digital two-way radio protocol for land mobile radio, developed by Icom and Kenwood to meet the FCC's 12.5 kHz narrowbanding requirement.