There is no Nvidia tag. Confer, https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/nvidia.
It may be a good idea to make nvidia an alias for nvidia-graphics-card.
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nvidia is a manufacturer meta tag that has already been deprecated. See Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again.
A separate, synonomized nvidia tag isn't really needed because as soon as the user starts typing nvidia in the tag area, [nvidia-graphics-card] automatically pops up (along with other nvidia options).
In the comments, you mentioned that the actual issue is trying to search on nvidia, which returns no matches. If we recreate the nvidia tag and synonomize it with nvidia-graphics-card, that creates a different problem. There are seven nvidia-related tags, and the resulting search on nvidia would exclude roughly a third of the nvidia questions. So the results would be misleading.
You can search on the word "nvidia" rather than the tag, but that isn't perfect, either. In the question, posters may refer to the "model name" of the card without mentioning "nvidia", so the search wouldn't capture everything.
There's actually a solution that isn't advertised, so people might not think to try it. You can use wildcards in tag name search terms. Searching on [nvidia*] returns everything with a tag name starting with "nvidia". It might be helpful for SE to include that information in the search help. I posted a suggestion to do that on Meta SE.
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In the vocabulary of techies, Nvidia is a video card. It is also a company, but the primary use refers to their video cards. Stack Overflow and Super User of full of the video card use. Does anyone use the term Nvidia to mean the company and not the video card?– jwwCommented Dec 18, 2019 at 2:29
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@jww, Nvidia is commonly known for their graphics-related hardware, but they're also into other stuff, like parallel processing and AI. In any event, a separate, synonomized tag isn't really needed because as soon as the user starts typing nvidia in the tag area, [nvidia-graphics-card] automatically pops up. Commented Dec 18, 2019 at 2:39
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synonomized tag isn't really - Not true. I wasted about 5 minutes trying to figure why searching for
[nvidia]was producing 0 results. It broke usability on the site. I also could not find anything related to SoCs or AI. This is what happens when engineers make usability decisions. They argue for cases that don't exist in practice, and other engineers with no common sense agree with them.– jwwCommented Dec 18, 2019 at 2:44 -
1@jww, LOL. Yeah, if you specifically search using [nvidia], there aren't any matching results. But it took you 5 minutes to figure it out? More coffee might have shortened that time. :-) The thing is, there are a bunch of nvidia tags, so synonomizing nvidia with [nvidia-graphics-card] would return misleading results, excluding the other tags. Entering nvidia in the search box on the tag page returns everything. If we synonomize it, someone else will complain that their search returned only partial results. Search with the word "nvidia" instead of the tag. Commented Dec 18, 2019 at 2:55
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@jww - I know, I'm 5 years late, but: search for
[nvidia*]. This will get you ALL the tags related to nvidia :)– RobotnikCommented Jul 25 at 5:39
[nvidia-graphics-card].