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Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner: it's called NVIDIA, it's got a market capitalization of more than 20 billion dollars and it's now the company of the year. At least that's what Forbes thinks about the Santa Clara, CA-based GPU maker, in the light of its recent performances.

Following AMD's acquisition of its Canadian rival ATI in the summer of 2006, NVIDIA began its continuous climb towards the top of the hill and can now boast with more than 62% percent market share (up from 57% last year). As for the revenue part, the company estimates a gross profit of $4 billion for this fiscal year, and a net profit of about $900 billion (up 50%). This, and other things, have determined Forbes' editors to give the "Company of the Year" award to NVIDIA.

What should we expect next? Well, first of all, it's that next GPU generation we've all been craving for since the debut of Crysis. After that, it's the integration of GPUs in high-performance computing  (HPC), like the recently unveiled Tesla or CUDA.

And after that? Well, we'll just have to see how AMD manages to pack GPU features into its CPUs or how Intel's Larabee will behave...